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Re: [O] working with delimited files


From: Rainer M Krug
Subject: Re: [O] working with delimited files
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:29:33 +0200



On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Sivaram,

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> 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



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