From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer M Krug Subject: Re: working with delimited files Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:29:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <82hb72ulaz.fsf@gmail.com> <871uy16vje.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00148539418011a71804a78aa269 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qf6RN-0002I6-VP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:29:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qf6RL-0005Tn-GZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:29:37 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:59199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qf6RL-0005TZ-4d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:29:35 -0400 Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so1211293qyk.0 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:29:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <871uy16vje.fsf@gnu.org> 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bastien Cc: Sivaram Neelakantan , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --00148539418011a71804a78aa269 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Bastien wrote: > Hi Sivaram, > > Sivaram Neelakantan writes: > > > This makes it easier to read as you can see below > > | BEL | EQ | 02-Jan-2006 | 993.15 | 998 | 1001 | 983 |.. > > | BEL | EQ | 03-Jan-2006 | 989.05 | 999.5 | 1000 | 989.9 |.. > > | BEL | EQ | 04-Jan-2006 | 994.35 | 998 | 1014 | 986.15 |.. > > > > How do I use the overlay for editing but keep the underlying file > > structure? > > I can see a solution where you could add an overlay to display the table > (say, with C-u C-c |, for example) but you won't be able to *edit*. > > Would that be something you (and others) would find useful? > 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. Rainer > -- > Bastien > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: Rainer@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug --00148539418011a71804a78aa269 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Bastien= <bzg@altern.org= > wrote:
Hi Sivaram,

Sivaram Neelakantan <n= sivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> This makes it easier to read as you can see below
> | BEL | EQ | 02-Jan-2006 | =A0993.15 | =A0 =A0 998 | =A0 =A01001 | =A0= =A0 983 |..
> | BEL | EQ | 03-Jan-2006 | =A0989.05 | =A0 999.5 | =A0 =A01000 | =A0 9= 89.9 |..
> | BEL | EQ | 04-Jan-2006 | =A0994.35 | =A0 =A0 998 | =A0 =A01014 | =A0= 986.15 |..
>
> How do I use the overlay for editing but keep the underlying file
> structure?

I can see a solution where you could add an overlay to display the ta= ble
(say, with C-u C-c |, for example) but you won't be able to *edit*.

Would that be something you (and others) would find useful?

Definitely useful - =A0a read-only viewer of delimited= files, would be a useful feature (and sometimes safer then an editor) whic= h 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 delimite= d 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) ex= port of table into delimited format

Both in itself= would be very useful, but together they would be brilliant.

Rainer



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=A0Bastien




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Rainer M. Krug, = PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phy= s. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbos= ch University
South Africa

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