From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: "Łukasz Stelmach" <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quote the real csv separator
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:25:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tykbqd1v.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871v7f8gfl.fsf@kotik.lan> ("Łukasz Stelmach"'s message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:49:18 +0200")
Łukasz Stelmach <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl> writes:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:56 AM, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
>>
>>> I'd rather use an optional sep argument to the org-quote-csv-field
>>> function but I've got no idea how to stick it into the orgtbl-apply-
>>> fmt. However, the quoting function should use current rather then
>>> assume comma.
>>>
> [...]
>>>
>> thanks for the patch, but I do not understand it.
>>
>> The separator for csv is always the comma, or am I wrong here?
>
> A bit. The fact is that both OpenOffice (i've just checked) and
> Microsoft Office (I am almost 100% sure) allow to choose the separator
> upon export. And org-mode also allows it with radio tables with the :sep
> parameter (which is passed to the generic exporter).
>
>> So this function should use comma, hard-coded. The only place
>> where it is used is when orgtbl-to-csv calls the generic
>> exporter. It does so with comma as separator and with
>> org-quote-csv-field as formatting function.
>>
>> What use case do you have in mind?
>
> For me in particular? This is quite complicated ;-) And if you decide to
> reject the patch I will understand. (Read only I you have some time to
> waste ;)
>
> My bank lets me download monthly reports as CSV. In fact they let me
> choose the separator and the default value is the comma. But I choose
> '|' because then I can open the csv as org file and just do
>
> (replace-regexp "^" "|")
>
> to get a beautiful org-mode table.
There is an easier org-mode way I think. Just get the comma delimited
data into your org file, select the region and C-c | to get your table.
If you are inserting an external file with C-x i <file> RET
then C-x C-x marks the region and C-c | converts it to a table.
If this works better for you then I would suggest dropping the patch.
Regards,
Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-23 22:56 [PATCH] quote the real csv separator Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-24 16:26 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-24 16:52 ` Nick Dokos
2010-10-24 19:37 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-25 10:32 ` Stefan Vollmar
2010-10-24 20:49 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-25 1:25 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2010-10-25 8:45 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-25 9:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-25 11:59 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-25 9:15 ` Sébastien Vauban
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