Theres a very simple way to do this; its been available in EMACS as long as I can remember--which is back to the late 80's--and OrgMode makes it even easier since it evens-up/covers-down/aligns columns in real-time: All you have to do is:
Go to the bottom right corner of the cell or column you would like to move and set a mark "CS@", then go the the top right corner of the square cell or rectangular region of cells you intend to move and do "Cxk" == cut-rectangle--then go to where you want to move the cell or rectangle and do "Cxry" to do the yank-rectangle where you'd like to put it. I just tested it--works fine! ;-) On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:51 AM, "Martin G. Skjæveland" <mart...@ifi.uio.no>wrote: > On 29/09/10 17:58, Carsten Dominik wrote: > >> Hi Martin, >> >> On Sep 25, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Martin G. Skjæveland wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> is there a quick way for moving a cell about in a table? I enjoy >>> swapping the order of rows and columns in a table using Meta + >>> [arrow], but I have not found a ways of doing the same for a single >>> cell. Is it possible? >>> >>> Example, with the cursor on '2' in the following table >>> >>> | A | B | C | >>> | 1 | 2 | 3 | >>> | x | y | z | >>> >>> and pressing [move cell left] would give me >>> >>> | A | B | C | >>> | 2 | 1 | 3 | >>> | x | y | z | >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> > Hi Carsten > > I fail to see the use case for this. >> > > I have come across two use cases lately where I have been missing this > feature: 1) in a timetable, swapping a cell or two, e.g., the title of a > talk and the speaker, with next week's values; and 2) making a seating plan > for a social event. In the latter, moving people about quick and easy is > nice. > > Yes, this can >> be useful sometimes, and you can use `C-c C-x C-w' and >> `C-c C-x C-y' to cut and paste individual fields or >> even rectangular regions. >> > > Ok, thanks, I did not know about these. > > But for pushing a cell value >> to a neighboring cell, I don't see a frequent use that >> would call for a special command beyond what I listed above. >> Do you? >> > > I agree that it is not a frequent operation. > > For the seating plan, I ended up with lots of post-it notes on a wall, > which worked just fine! :) > > Thanks again! > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >
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