This is similar to the way I've done it before. It makes it cumbersome if there are many lines below the cell that is to be inserted though..
It would be nice to have as a function that inserts or deletes a cell in the same way as one can insert and delete rows and columns. Maybe as a prefix to M-S-<left/right> and M-S-<up/down> ?
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:50 PM, brian powell
<address@hidden> wrote:
* May want to turn org-mode/table off temporarily (or maybe it will
just make it easier) then you can do the "rectangle edits" michael was
referring to:
** Go to the point just to the right of the 4.
** C@ ---marks the point.
** Go to the 3.
** Cxrk
** Go to "@2$2"--i.e. where the "4" used to be.
** Cxry
* Emacs OrgMode makes all of this easier since it lines everything up
for you by "covering down" the columns (org-table-align)---making all
the cells easily edited by the usual "rectangle-killing" and
"rectangle-yanking" methods.
** The method above can be generalized for editing OrgMode tables
regardless of the number of symbols in the cells--since OrgMode aligns
them for you; and, EMACS is restricted only by the amount of RAM in
your computer.
*** Also, if you want to edit gygabyte size files, using similar
methods, I highly recommend QEMACS.