* Tip: How to copy&paste a table from Firefox to Org
@ 2010-08-10 18:33 Jan Böcker
2010-08-11 1:42 ` Bernt Hansen
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From: Jan Böcker @ 2010-08-10 18:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org Mode
Hi all,
posting in case this is useful to someone else:
I just figured out how to copy & paste tabular data from Firefox to an
Org buffer (in my case: a train schedule from www.bahn.de).
- Select data in Firefox
- Paste into Org, select it as the region
- M-x replace-regexp <RET> C-i \ | ^ <RET> | <RET>
C-i inserts a tab character (you can also use C-q <TAB> instead).
We replace each beginning of a line and each tab character with "|".
- Place the cursor on the table and press C-c C-c to align it
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* Re: Tip: How to copy&paste a table from Firefox to Org
2010-08-10 18:33 Tip: How to copy&paste a table from Firefox to Org Jan Böcker
@ 2010-08-11 1:42 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-08-11 5:28 ` Jan Böcker
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From: Bernt Hansen @ 2010-08-11 1:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Böcker; +Cc: Org Mode
Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> posting in case this is useful to someone else:
>
> I just figured out how to copy & paste tabular data from Firefox to an
> Org buffer (in my case: a train schedule from www.bahn.de).
>
> - Select data in Firefox
> - Paste into Org, select it as the region
> - M-x replace-regexp <RET> C-i \ | ^ <RET> | <RET>
>
> C-i inserts a tab character (you can also use C-q <TAB> instead).
> We replace each beginning of a line and each tab character with "|".
>
> - Place the cursor on the table and press C-c C-c to align it
Isn't this the same as
- Select data in Firefox
- Paste into Org.
- C-x C-x (select it as the region)
- M-x org-table-convert-region
?
-Bernt
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* Re: Tip: How to copy&paste a table from Firefox to Org
2010-08-11 1:42 ` Bernt Hansen
@ 2010-08-11 5:28 ` Jan Böcker
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jan Böcker @ 2010-08-11 5:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bernt Hansen; +Cc: Org Mode
On 08/11/2010 03:42 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> posting in case this is useful to someone else:
>>
>> I just figured out how to copy & paste tabular data from Firefox to an
>> Org buffer (in my case: a train schedule from www.bahn.de).
>>
>> - Select data in Firefox
>> - Paste into Org, select it as the region
>> - M-x replace-regexp <RET> C-i \ | ^ <RET> | <RET>
>>
>> C-i inserts a tab character (you can also use C-q <TAB> instead).
>> We replace each beginning of a line and each tab character with "|".
>>
>> - Place the cursor on the table and press C-c C-c to align it
>
> Isn't this the same as
>
> - Select data in Firefox
> - Paste into Org.
> - C-x C-x (select it as the region)
> - M-x org-table-convert-region
>
> ?
>
> -Bernt
Yes, it is.
I should read the manual more often to discover cool features like that!
Btw, org-table-convert-region is also bound to C-c |, which would make
the steps:
- select data in firefox
- C-y C-x C-x C-c |
Thanks a lot, Bernt! You see, that's the other reason I posted: I knew
if I had overlooked a much faster way, someone would point it out to me :)
- Jan
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