From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: From formatted to table
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:21:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljjxeho1.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090929T164719-606@post.gmane.org> (andrea Crotti's message of "Tue\, 29 Sep 2009 14\:48\:33 +0000 \(UTC\)")
andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:
> I have for example a table where
>
> | one thing | dsjfls |
> | two things | dslkjfls |
> | three abc dej | dsf |
>
> And I would like to get
>
> | one | thing | dsjfls |
> | two | things | dslkjfls |
> | three | abc dej | dsf |
>
> I tried some simple substitutions but substituting all the spaces in
> the region selected will cause problems elsewhere. I would need to
> substitute " " only in one column, is that possible?
Anything is possible in Emacs :) -- just look at org-mode!
This sounds like a use for a keyboard macro to me...
Position point on line 1 of the table
C-x (
C-s SPC C-s RET |
C-a C-n
C-x e
and repeat 'e' for every line in the table
then C-p C-c C-c to realign.
If you do this a lot you can save the macro or build a lisp function
that does it - repeating for the entire table.
HTH,
-Bernt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-29 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-29 14:48 From formatted to table andrea Crotti
2009-09-29 17:54 ` Jonathan Arkell
2009-09-29 19:07 ` Nick Dokos
2009-09-29 18:21 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
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