Re: [O] [OT] CSV to Org

2011-11-30 Thread Eric Schulte
I'm coming to this thread late, so forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but `org-table-import' always works for me. Best, -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

Re: [O] [OT] CSV to Org

2011-11-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
Samuel Wales writes: > I have an old CSV that looks like this. I'd like to convert > it to Org format. I've used csv-mode in the past for this but I cannot do this now as there is some bug in csv-mode that is causing problems with, of all things, my mode-line-format... sigh. Anyway, check out

Re: [O] [OT] CSV to Org

2011-11-22 Thread Nick Dokos
Samuel Wales wrote: > Hmm, thanks for your comments. I can see the appeal of a Python-ish > solution, but I was thinking maybe some elisp (or even a package or a > part of Org) instead. Then it could grow to a generally useful > importer. > The trouble is that CSV is a very loosely defined fo

Re: [O] [OT] CSV to Org

2011-11-22 Thread Samuel Wales
Hi Nick, Thanks for your comments. I can see the appeal of an external tool, but I was thinking maybe some elisp (or even a package or a part of Org) could do it instead. Then it could maybe even grow to become a generally useful importer. I am useless at Python. Samuel

Re: [O] [OT] CSV to Org

2011-11-22 Thread Samuel Wales
Hmm, thanks for your comments. I can see the appeal of a Python-ish solution, but I was thinking maybe some elisp (or even a package or a part of Org) instead. Then it could grow to a generally useful importer.

Re: [O] [OT] CSV to Org

2011-11-22 Thread Nick Dokos
Samuel Wales wrote: > I have an old CSV that looks like this. I'd like to convert > it to Org format. > > I think I want to use properties for every field except Name > (headline) and Note (body text with \r\n meaning newline). > > What is the best way to do this? > > "Na&me","&W","&H","A","B

[O] [OT] CSV to Org

2011-11-22 Thread Samuel Wales
I have an old CSV that looks like this. I'd like to convert it to Org format. I think I want to use properties for every field except Name (headline) and Note (body text with \r\n meaning newline). What is the best way to do this? "Na&me","&W","&H","A","B","N&et","&File","&Title","&Org","Addr&1