* feature proposal. Kill and yank columns
@ 2016-04-28 9:41 Uwe Brauer
2016-04-28 10:29 ` Marco Wahl
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From: Uwe Brauer @ 2016-04-28 9:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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.
I goggled around and found for example proposals as in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22002374/how-to-select-a-column-of-a-table-in-emacs-org-mode
Which is basically the same I do.
Or in
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#field-coordinates-in-formulas
Which seems complicated.
It also seems a subject which comes up regularly. Is this so difficult
to implement?
Thanks and regards
Uwe Brauer
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* Re: feature proposal. Kill and yank columns
2016-04-28 9:41 feature proposal. Kill and yank columns Uwe Brauer
@ 2016-04-28 10:29 ` Marco Wahl
2016-04-28 10:48 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-04-28 10:34 ` Stig Brautaset
2016-04-28 20:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Marco Wahl @ 2016-04-28 10:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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
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* Re: feature proposal. Kill and yank columns
2016-04-28 9:41 feature proposal. Kill and yank columns Uwe Brauer
2016-04-28 10:29 ` Marco Wahl
@ 2016-04-28 10:34 ` Stig Brautaset
2016-04-28 10:47 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-04-28 20:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stig Brautaset @ 2016-04-28 10:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> 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.
Does `org-table-move-column' help, or do you mean to move the column to
a different table?
Stig
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* Re: feature proposal. Kill and yank columns
2016-04-28 10:34 ` Stig Brautaset
@ 2016-04-28 10:47 ` Uwe Brauer
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From: Uwe Brauer @ 2016-04-28 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
>>> "Stig" == Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org> writes:
> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> 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.
> Does `org-table-move-column' help,
no
> or do you mean to move the column to a different table?
yes
Uwe
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* Re: feature proposal. Kill and yank columns
2016-04-28 10:29 ` Marco Wahl
@ 2016-04-28 10:48 ` Uwe Brauer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Uwe Brauer @ 2016-04-28 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
> Hi!
> 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.
That is cool, thanks, unfortunately some of my tables contain horizontal
lines, but this is not really very essential for me.
> HTH,
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* Re: feature proposal. Kill and yank columns
2016-04-28 9:41 feature proposal. Kill and yank columns Uwe Brauer
2016-04-28 10:29 ` Marco Wahl
2016-04-28 10:34 ` Stig Brautaset
@ 2016-04-28 20:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-04-29 7:40 ` Uwe Brauer
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Goaziou @ 2016-04-28 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Uwe Brauer; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> 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.
>
> I goggled around and found for example proposals as in
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22002374/how-to-select-a-column-of-a-table-in-emacs-org-mode
>
> Which is basically the same I do.
>
> Or in
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#field-coordinates-in-formulas
>
> Which seems complicated.
>
> It also seems a subject which comes up regularly. Is this so difficult
> to implement?
There are `org-table-cut-region', `org-table-copy-region' and
`org-table-paste-rectangle'. In any case, you'll need the mark.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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* Re: feature proposal. Kill and yank columns
2016-04-28 20:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
@ 2016-04-29 7:40 ` Uwe Brauer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Uwe Brauer @ 2016-04-29 7:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
> Hello,
> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> There are `org-table-cut-region', `org-table-copy-region' and
> `org-table-paste-rectangle'. In any case, you'll need the mark.
If I need to mark the region in question, I could stick with
kill-rectangle and friends. The point is not to mark the column.
org-table-delete-column does not need the mark, so my hope is that this
code could be somehow generalized. I played a bit around with that
function but so far no success.
regards
Uwe Brauer
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