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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: table export to same buffer
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 09:25:43 +0200
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To: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
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Hello,

Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> The context is writing C with C mode (or haskell with haskell-mode python
> with python-mode etc) ie the user is not using orgmode.  That is why I
> mentioned orgtbl, ie org table editing facilities are needed but the major
> mode is something else.
>
> However here some pre and postprocessing is also probably required.
> Something like an automation of the following:
>
> 1. Editing a large struct spec in C -- major mode is C-mode
> 2. Select the region (may even be a rectangle)
> 3. Paste into an org-mode buffer
> 4. Run C-c | on region
> 5. Edit table as required
> 6. org-table-export in desired format to a file F
> 7. Visit F
> 8. Copy/Cut F (if necessary as rectangle)
> 9. Go back to original C-mode buffer and paste

There's also `org-export-replace-region-by'.


Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou