Tag: table-mode

emacs table-mode: why does a kill-ring-save on a (single) cell mark the (entire) buffer as “changed”?
- http://table.sourceforge.net
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Text-Based-Tables.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/textmodes/table.el
- https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TableMode
- http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_table.html
- http://doc.endlessparentheses.com/Fun/*table–cell-kill-ring-save.html – within tables kill-ring-save is actually remapped to *table--cell-kill-ring-save
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Kill-Ring.html
That “feature” (marking the buffer as changed) is terribly annoying!!! You try to copy (AKA kill-ring-save) text from a table, and from now on something “tells” you, you “changed” the table – but actually you did not. You may be tempted to think, saving a file is a cheap operation, but what if the file is actually located on a remote machine and you are operating on the file through tramp and you cannot reach the machine for a couple of hours?!!
- https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
- https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
Why not change the buffer to read-only and kill-ring-save than? if you try to kill-ring-save in read-only mode, emacs shouts at you:

apply: Buffer is read-only: #<buffer …>

But yes, although emacs shouted at you, you succeeded copying the text in question to the kill-ring, and now you can paste it into wherever you want.
2018-01-10
emacs table-mode
- http://table.sourceforge.net
- http://table.sourceforge.net/html – generate HTML from an emacs table
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Text-Based-Tables.html
- https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TableMode
- http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_table.html
2018-01-10
emacs table-mode, how to print, …
- http://table.sourceforge.net/html/
- https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TableMode
Rendering an emacs table as HTML table, possible for further intermediate processing – like splitting … – quite useful!

So far I have always printed an emacs table as fixed-font text document – sort of ugly, but still useful.
2018-01-06
emacs: in table-mode, how do I change the face used for cells?
- https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2394/in-table-mode-how-do-i-change-the-face-used-for-cells
I find it very useful and necessary to know immediately, that a table got recognised by emacs as such. Emacs shows it in colours then.

With the default settings I find the background blue1 (together with foreground gray90) sometimes / often “far too heavy”, let’s say: a contrast far too exhausting for my eyes. Really!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eye_candy
But what is a “less heavy” pair of foreground / background settings for table-cell? “For the time being” I am using plain “black” for the background through emacs customisation (“table-cell” in my “custom-file“).

The StackExchange article explains you everything, you need to know, and also points you to the related customisation buffer.
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Colors.html – “Colors for Faces” – running list-colors-display is faulty for me currently (2019-08-27), so I have to find another way of listing the availables colours
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rgb.txt resp. …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names
foreground background
default black
“light grey” “dark blue”
2019-08-27: too difficult snow1 gray70
2019-08-27: works black white
2019-08-27: works tomato white
2018-01-06
migrating account details from “text table” file to XML file

I started the XML in 2007, with a couple of entries migrated from the “text table” file. And now in 2014 there are still far too many entries in the “text table” file, that is obnoxious. But actually I should have expected that.

Having both files in parallel makes me every so often look for an entry in both files in turn, and that is sooooooo bad.

Right, the “text table” file is rather nice to deal with in Emacs table-mode, but even simply copying from there (in just table-mode) leaves the buffer as “changed”, and I always have to make it look “undone”.

It is just so much nicer to have just one file, and that is in XML, and I can use nXML (within Emacs) to deal with it.

I even have a Perl script to assist me with the migration, but then … – I started the bad habit of having multi-line text fields, that obviously do not translate easily into that XML format, because field lines, that look aligned and corrsponding do not really correspond, so you do have to do something with them.

I think I should just convert the next entries I am going to look up, assuming they are the ones I need most often.

2014-11-06

	foreground	background
default		black
	“light grey”	“dark blue”
2019-08-27: too difficult	snow1	gray70
2019-08-27: works	black	white
2019-08-27: works	tomato	white

Tag: table-mode

emacs table-mode: why does a kill-ring-save on a (single) cell mark the (entire) buffer as “changed”?

emacs table-mode

emacs table-mode, how to print, …

emacs: in table-mode, how do I change the face used for cells?

migrating account details from “text table” file to XML file