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From: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Martins <danielemc@gmail.com>
Cc: "Gustav Wikström" <gustav.erik@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TABLES: split cells on columns
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:05:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALn3zojp0qrfqRRqCg616KB5mvV7PBQnJAUenogdWUOYVOep1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+oe6voOk6nzaAyq-HCK7R0GhOKJpgFET-wZiuAE_JyXo7+0uQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Daniel

Yes, there is:
1) M-<down> to add the new line
2) mark the region from "t" down to any char from the field below
3) M-Ret

The opposite direction is:
- C-u M-Ret to join the content of a field to the one above

See also C-h f org-table-wrap-region for more tricks.

Michael

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 14:31, Daniel Martins <danielemc@gmail.com> wrote:
> The feature of remove/add cell is quite important. Should be a feature
> request.
> Another important feature request is to split cells.
> Example (copying and paste the example above)
>
> Example:
> I have the following table:
> |        1 |        1 |
> |        2 | two words|
> |        3 |        4 |
> |        4 |          |
> Now I want to split cell  @2$2 and thus move the second part to the
> following cell below  in column 2 down one step.
> After:
> |        1 |        1 |
> |        2 |       two|
> |          |     words|
> |        3 |        4 |
> |        4 |          |
>
>
> I do it several times when I put much comments on an entry and the column
> becomes much wider.
> It is several commands (sometimes with rectangles, sometimes not depending
> on the remaining of the table) .
> Is there an easy way to do this?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-21 13:31 TABLES: split cells on columns Daniel Martins
2011-11-21 14:05 ` Michael Brand [this message]
2011-11-22 14:26   ` Daniel Martins
2011-11-22 14:36     ` Michael Brand

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