From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature proposal. Kill and yank columns
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:29:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84y47y58mg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ziset6iq.fsf@mat.ucm.es
Hi!
> I know that I can delete columns but I miss a function which would
> *kill* a column, put it in the some ring (or register) and paste it.
>
> I do this my marking the content of a column and use kill-rectangle and
> yank-rectangle but I find such a solution which needs the mark,
> cumbersome.
> It also seems a subject which comes up regularly. Is this so difficult
> to implement?
Some time ago I wrote this function:
(defun mw-org-table-mark-column ()
"Mark the column containing point.
This works only in org tables.
For tables with horizontal lines this function can fail."
(interactive)
(unless (org-at-table-p) (user-error "Not at a table"))
(org-table-find-dataline)
(org-table-check-inside-data-field)
(let* ((col (org-table-current-column))
(beg (org-table-begin))
(end (org-table-end)))
(goto-char beg)
(org-table-goto-column col)
(re-search-backward "|" nil t)
(push-mark)
(goto-char (1- end))
(org-table-goto-column (1+ col))
(re-search-backward "|" nil t)
(exchange-point-and-mark)))
If you do M-x mw-org-table-mark-column followed by C-x SPACE in a
table-cell you (hopefully) the column gets marked.
This might be a start.
HTH,
--
Marco Wahl
GPG: 0x49010A040A3AE6F2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-28 9:41 feature proposal. Kill and yank columns Uwe Brauer
2016-04-28 10:29 ` Marco Wahl [this message]
2016-04-28 10:48 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-04-28 10:34 ` Stig Brautaset
2016-04-28 10:47 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-04-28 20:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-04-29 7:40 ` Uwe Brauer
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.orgmode.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=84y47y58mg.fsf@gmail.com \
--to=marcowahlsoft@gmail.com \
--cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).