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From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: working with delimited files
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:50:38 +0530
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On Fri, Jul 08 2011,Rainer M Krug Rainer M Krug wrote:


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> Definitely useful -  a read-only viewer of delimited files, would be a
> useful feature (and sometimes safer then an editor) which I would use
> regularly.
>
> But a really nice feature would be to be able to open a delimited file as a
> table, then being able to edit it using all the usual org features for
> tables, and being able to export the table to the delimited format again,
> while at the same time being able to save the org file. So there would be
> two aspects:
>
> 1) import delimited file into org-table
> 2) export of table into delimited format
>
> Both in itself would be very useful, but together they would be brilliant.

Exactly!  And auto-{number/name}ing of the columns when importing would
also be nice.


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