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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: feature proposal. Kill and yank columns
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:13:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb31ijac.fsf@saiph.selenimh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ziset6iq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:41:17 +0000")

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

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-28 20:13 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
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 [this message]
2016-04-29  7:40   ` Uwe Brauer

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