Re: Table: Insert Cell

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)]

Wow! That's great! One of my next projects is going to have to be putting that little sequence into a function!

Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:

> jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:
>> Tory S. Anderson writes:
>>
>>> Does anyone know a solution for the surely common case of needing to
>>> insert a cell (not a column or row) into an orgmode table?
>>> Spreadsheet programs allow the option of pushing the column down or
>>> pushing the cells right in this case. How can this be achieved in
>>> orgmode? 
>>
>> I do not think that there is a command for that. For pushing the row,
>> it is trivial just write the new cell
>>
>> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>> | 4 | 5 | 6 |
>> | 7 | 8 | 9 |
>>
>> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>> | 4 | here|5 | 6 |
>> | 7 | 8 | 9 |
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> For pushing the column, you can use kill-rectangle after inserting
>> another row
>>
>> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>> | 4 | 5 | 6 |
>> | 7 | 8 | 9 |
>>
>> TAB on the 9 cell
>>[...]
>> Finally, C-c C-c, gives you what you want
>>
>> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>> | 4 |   | 6 |
>> | 7 | 5 | 9 |
>> |   | 8 |   |
>
> This could be the day of org-table-transpose-table-at-point.
>
>  | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>  | 4 | 5 | 6 |
>  | 7 | 8 | 9 |
>
> org-table-transpose-table-at-point
>
>  | 1 | 4 | 7 |
>  | 2 | 5 | 8 |
>  | 3 | 6 | 9 |
>
>  | 1 | 4 | 7 |
>  | 2 || 5 | 8 |
>  | 3 | 6 | 9 |
>
> C-c C-c
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>  | 1 | 4 | 7 |   |
>  | 2 |   | 5 | 8 |
>  | 3 | 6 | 9 |   |
>
> org-table-transpose-table-at-point
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>  | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>  | 4 |   | 6 |
>  | 7 | 5 | 9 |
>  |   | 8 |   |
>
>
> Regards,  Marco