function to select text of in a cell of a table

function to select text of in a cell of a table

[dmg]

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hi everybody,

has anybody written a function to select the text in a cell of a table?

I needed to write a macro/command, but could not find one. Ideally it
should trim the whitespace in the ends.

Otherwise, I'll just write one.

thank you,

--daniel

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Re: function to select text of in a cell of a table

[Charles C. Berry]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, dmg wrote:

> hi everybody,
>
> has anybody written a function to select the text in a cell of a table?

If you mean like what ob-ref.el uses to support babel references, yes.

Also see org-table.el.

If you just want support for working with Babel src blocks, see

 	(info "(org) var")

HTH,

Chuck

Re: function to select text of in a cell of a table

[Kaushal Modi]

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Check out this earlier thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2016-05/msg00240.html

You probably just need the org-table-mark-field definition from that.

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016, 8:28 AM Charles C. Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, dmg wrote:
>
> > hi everybody,
> >
> > has anybody written a function to select the text in a cell of a table?
>
> If you mean like what ob-ref.el uses to support babel references, yes.
>
> Also see org-table.el.
>
> If you just want support for working with Babel src blocks, see
>
>         (info "(org) var")
>
> HTH,
>
> Chuck
>
> --

Kaushal Modi

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Re: function to select text of in a cell of a table

[D M German]

 Kaushal Modi twisted the bytes to say:


 Kaushal> Check out this earlier thread:
 Kaushal> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2016-05/msg00240.html

 Kaushal> You probably just need the org-table-mark-field definition from that.

thank you both very much. Kaushal, your function is exactly what I
needed.

--daniel


 Kaushal> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016, 8:28 AM Charles C. Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu> wrote:

 >> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, dmg wrote:
 >> 
 >> > hi everybody,
 >> >
 >> > has anybody written a function to select the text in a cell of a table?
 >> 
 >> If you mean like what ob-ref.el uses to support babel references, yes.
 >> 
 >> Also see org-table.el.
 >> 
 >> If you just want support for working with Babel src blocks, see
 >> 
 >> (info "(org) var")
 >> 
 >> HTH,
 >> 
 >> Chuck
 >> 
 >> --

 Kaushal> Kaushal Modi

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