From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: insert cell inside an org-mode table? Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:01:40 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87h8zs9dyu.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87d1ae95ud.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87bmpysgoy.fsf@skimble.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJ1ki-0003v2-2g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:01:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJ1ke-0003SG-GB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:01:48 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c06::243]:36099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJ1ke-0003S5-CO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:01:44 -0400 Received: by mail-io0-x243.google.com with SMTP id i93so3968412iod.3 for ; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:01:44 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Michael Brand Cc: org-mode-email , Sharon Kimble This looks like exactly the solution Sharon is looking for! What a great community we have that it even already exists! Thanks for pointing to it. Michael Brand writes: > Hi Sharon > > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Sharon Kimble > wrote: > >> Okay, imagine that you have this table - >> >> | fruit | one | two | >> |--------+------------+------------| >> | pear | orange | grape | >> | banana | grapefruit | satsuma | >> | tomato | potato | clementine | >> >> And you discover that you've missed out apples and you want to put them >> where 'grapefruit' currently is, I would like the following to happen - >> >> | fruit | one | two | >> |--------+------------+------------| >> | pear | orange | grape | >> | banana | apple | satsuma | >> | tomato | grapefruit | clementine | >> | | potato | | >> >> Where the rest of the column gets shifted downwards by one cell. >> >> Now that is a very simplistic table, the one that I'm hoping to build >> will be 6 columns by about 60 rows, so having the ability to shift rows >> downwards from inserting a cell would be vital to its successful usage. > > This is not built-in but you can look here at the last example: > "Rearrange one or more field within the same row or column" > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#field-same-row-or-column > > Michael -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu