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From: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de>
To: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Support for buffer-column-aligned tables in Org?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:14:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a32d7ed-bab4-4a65-8eb0-e07e1f0fe0b3@vodafonemail.de> (raw)

Is there any kind of support (also by non-core extensions) for tables
in Org that are entirely organized along buffer columns?  Some magic
(= clever heuristics) that recognizes the following as a table with
four columns, the first three left-aligned, the last right-aligned:

        <6>                             1.0
     1  one                  some      10.0
     2  two                  boring   100.0
     3  This is a long text  column  1000.0

By "organized along buffer columns" I mean that basically any kind of
white-space should be allowed to align the columns in the buffer.

By "any kind of support" I mean:

- one-time conversion support to an Org table along the lines of C-c |

- or edit/export support of such tables w/o the need to convert them
  to an Org table first.

I tried searching but failed to find search terms that are specific
enough to find anything useful.

Thanks.


             reply	other threads:[~2023-10-25 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-25 19:14 Jens Schmidt [this message]
2023-10-25 23:11 ` Support for buffer-column-aligned tables in Org? Samuel Wales
2023-10-25 23:14   ` Samuel Wales

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