I have a table in org-mode with emails in one column. I want to collect all the emails as a comma-separated list, but I don't know an easy way to do it. It seems like something fairly simple, but I can't find a solution anywhere on the web.
What would be the simplest way to do it?
Dipping my toes slightly into org mode, a very simple formula of #1.. will do the trick of making a list from the values in the current column from rows 1 onwards, as it simply joins the values by commas by default. e.g.:
#+TBLFM: #5$2=#1..
(followed by C-cC-c to evaluate), would create a list in row 5, column 2, of all the values in column 2.
It does wrap the list in square brackets, but that's obviously no problem for a manual approach.
One manual approach would be to use rectangle editing commands to extract the content of that column (which should be nicely aligned by org-mode), and then just search and replace to convert to CSV format:
C-SPC at first corner
C-xrk at opposite corner
C-/ to undo the kill (there's no default copy-rectangle command)
Then in the buffer where you want the list of addresses:
C-xry to yank the rectangle
C-xC-x to exchange point and mark, marking the region
C-M-% to regex search and replace within the region, like so:
C-M-%SPC*C-qC-jRET,RET!
Does M-x org-table-export do what you want?
Related
When doing multi cursor selection, often you need to type a different value for each, you've to cancel selection even though all cursors are where you want them to be.
Is it possible to activate some sort of mode and press tab to automatically iterate through each one by one on every tab and type your value. Esc to cancel the mode.
Note: how in end I had to type 1, 2, 3, 4 manually. Those could have been food categories, clothing size, select options etc.
For the special case of when you want to insert values that follow a sequence at your multiple cursor locations, then the powerful Insert Nums package for Sublime Text can help.
Insert Nums can fill in numbered blanks (1,2,3,4, ... 10), and much more. Just about anything you could write as a for loop can be generated and inserted at the multiple cursors. This includes integer/float/string, count up/down, arbitrary start/stop/step values, and formatting to hex, binary, etc., representation. You can also evaluate an expression at each index, so for example you can create a geometric or power series or a pattern of bit shifts.
The default case for Insert Nums is integers, starting at 1, incrementing by 1, and ending when all selections are filled. For the example problem in the question of numbering Items, all you'd have to do is Ctrl+Alt+N, then Return. The numbers 1 through 5 would be filled in.
In case you don't want to install extension, you can copy sample data (which is generated by your favorite scripts or tools, for example) then paste it to the current cursors.
For example, I generate numbers by a cent JavaScript:
Array(10).fill(0).map((a, i) => i + 1).join('\n')
Then,
I can only answer for Sublime, and there core Sublime can't do this out of the box, but you can add the capability to do it to via a third party package.
The PowerCursors package is one way to go with this. With it installed it's as simple as Alt+[ and Alt+] to cycle between existing cursors (the binds use Ctrl instead if you're on MacOS) and type what you like, amongst other capabilities.
There may well be other packages that incorporate something similar as well, so it may be worth casting around a little bit on packagecontrol.io to see what you can dig up.
For CudaText editor, plugin "Carets Numbering" exists, which does this job. You enter starting number, etc, and it inserts increasing numbers at multi-carets positions.
Text Pastry is a vscode extension which does exactly these type of things.
I would like to make a column on the left side of the buffer "strongly read-only". The cursor should not be able to go there. A multi-line highlight should skip the column. Text search should skip the column. Etc.
Is it possible?
Each row of the column carries information about the corresponding line of the original buffer. I considered making the column into a separate vertical buffer, but then I would have to worry about keeping them in vertical sync.
I imagine including the column of predecessor counts in the text buffer, as ordinary text. If I did that, I would have to rewrite a lot of commands (cursor movement, highlight, text search, ...) to ignore the column.
I found how to make a region "weakly read-only", such that it can be copied and searched, just not edited.
Sounds like you just want to use the margin. Look it up in the Emacs Lisp manual (info "(elisp)Display Margins"). Or check C-h o set-window-margins RET and the documentation of the display text-property.
What if one buffer was just a view of two others?
Say you have the following text:
abc
123
abc
456
789
abc
abc
I want to remove all "abc" lines and just keep one. I don't mind sorting. The result should be like this:
abc
123
456
789
If the order of lines is not important
Sort lines alphabetically, if they aren't already, and perform these steps:
(based on this related question: How do I find and remove duplicate lines from a file using Regular Expressions?)
Control+F
Toggle "Replace mode"
Toggle "Use Regular Expression" (the icon with the .* symbol)
In the search field, type ^(.*)(\n\1)+$
In the "replace with" field, type $1
Click ("Replace All").
If the order of lines is important so you can't sort
In this case, either resort to a solution outside VS Code (see here), or - if your document is not very large and you don't mind spamming the Replace All button - follow the previous steps, but in steps 4 and 5, enter these:
(based on Remove specific duplicate lines without sorting)
Caution: Blocks for files with too many lines (1000+); may cause VS Code to crash; may introduce blank lines in some cases.
search: ((^[^\S$]*?(?=\S)(?:.*)+$)[\S\s]*?)^\2$(?:\n)?
replace with: $1
and then click the "Replace All" button as many times as there are duplicate occurrences.
You'll know it's enough when the line count stops decreasing when you click the button. Navigate to the last line of the document to keep an eye on that.
Coming in vscode v1.62 is a command to eliminate duplicate lines from a selection:
Delete Duplicate Lines in the Command Palette
or
editor.action.removeDuplicateLines as a command in a keybinding
(there is no default keybinding for this command)
Here is a very interesting extension: Transformer
Features:
Unique Lines As New Document
Unique Lines
Align CSV
Align To Cursor
Compact CSV
Copy To New Document
Count Duplicate Lines As New Document
Encode / Decode
Filter Lines As New Document
Filter Lines
Join Lines
JSON String As Text
Lines As JSON String Array
Normalize Diacritical Marks
Randomize Lines
Randomize Selections
Reverse Lines
Reverse Selections
Rotate Backward Selections
Rotate Forward Selections
Select Highlights
Select Lines
Selection As JSON String
Sort Lines By Length
Sort Lines
Sort Selections
Split Lines After
Split Lines Before
Split Lines
Trim Lines
Trim Selections
Unique Lines
Removes duplicate lines from the document Operates on selection or
current block if no selection
Unique Lines As New Document
Unique lines are opened in a new document Operates on selection or
current block if no selection
I haven't played with it much besides the "Unique Lines" command but it seems quite nicely done (including attempting a macro recorder!).
To add to #Marc.2377 's reply.
If the order is important and you don't care that you just keep the last of the duplicate lines, simply search for the following regexp if you want to only remove duplicte non-empty lines
^(.+)\n(?=(?:.*\n)*?\1$)
If you also want to remove duplicate empty lines, use * instead of +
^(.*)\n(?=(?:.*\n)*?\1$)
and replace with nothing.
This will take a line and try to find ahead some more (maybe 0) lines followed by the exact same line taken. It will remove the taken line.
This is just a one-shot regex. No need to spam the replace button.
This now also takes the comment of #awk into account, in where the last line has to have a linefeed in order to be identified as a duplicate. This is no longer the case now by excluding the \n from the line to search and adding a $ to the line found.
I just had the same issue and found the Visual Studio Code package "Sort lines". See the Visual Studio Code market place for details (e.g. Sort lines).
This package has the option "Sorting lines (unique)", which did it for me. Take care of any white spaces at the beginning/end of lines. They influence whether lines are considered unique or not.
Install the DupChecker extension, hit F1, and type "Check Duplicates".
It will check for duplicates and ask if you want to remove them.
Try find and replace with a regular expression.
Find:
^(.+)((?:\r?\n.*)*)(?:\r?\n\1)$
Replace:
$1$2
It is possible to introduce some variance in the first group.
If you don't mind some Vim in your VS Code. You can install Vim emulation plugin.
Then you can use vim commands
:sort u
It will sort lines and it will remove duplicates
Sublime Text 3
It has blisteringly fast native permutation functions.
Edit > Permute Lines > Unique or ⇧⌘U, and
Edit > Permute Selections > Unique
Visual Studio Code is my daily driver. But, I keep Sublime Text on standby for these situations.
Not actually in Visual Studio Code, but if it works, it works.
Open a new Excel spreadsheet
Paste the data into a column
Go to the Data tab
Select the column of data (if you haven't already)
Click Remove Duplicates (somewhat in the middle of the bar)
Click OK to remove duplicates.
It is not the best answer, as you specified Visual Studio Code, but as I said: If it works, it works :)
I need to add .jpg at the end of all he cells in one or more columns
9788895249971 into > 9788895249971.jpg
9788867230129 into > 9788867230129.jpg
9788867230273 into > 9788867230273.jpg
9788867230280 into > 9788867230280.jpg
Detailed step-by-step instructions are much appreciated since I am very new to Calc.
Thanks
Do you need to do this once or is this going to be a repeated task every week/month?
If it is something you need to do just once, here is what you can do:
Next (right) to the column where your numbers are open (insert) a new column.
Assuming the following: Numbers are in column A, New column is column B.
In this new column B in the top cell (B1) write:
=A1&".jpg"
Now copy B1 all the way down to the end. In B1 type [Ctrl]+c then Hold [Shift] and hit [PgDn] until the end then press [Ctrl]+v.
Highlight Column B, [Ctrl]+c, then [Edit] [Paste Special] values only (No formula's) this freezes the calculated data.
This is just another option,
just click the function wizard and select concatenate, in that enter which column you want to enter as text1 as and second column in text2. Then when you click OK you will get an concatenated column like below image
so in the C column you will get as a1.jpg.
For those who continue to find this question (as I did):
This can be quickly done using regular expression option of find and replace. (I don't know what version of Calc introduced regex searches, but 6.2.4 has it.)
If you only want to update some non-blank cells on the sheet, select them.
Choose Find and Replace.
On the dialog, fill in the following:
Enter $ for the Find value. ($ means end of line in regex, or in this context end of cell value.)
Enter the desired suffix (.jpg in the question) for the Replace value.
Check Regular Expressions under Other Options
Check Current Selection Only under Other Options if you want to limit to the cells selected in step 1.
Uncheck All Sheets unless that is what you want.
Choose Replace All
This will update the values in-place and does not require any additional columns or formulas.
There's a much more elegant way to do this that doesn't require sacrificing cells just to hold data types, and can be scaled to work with one cell or a large chart range.
Add both pieces of data into the =CONCAT() function
Make sure to use CONCAT instead of CONCATENATE, as `CONCAT accepts cell ranges and is more dynamic.
Open the Function Wizard on the cell in question, and build the following function:
=CONCAT(<your_data>," <suffix>",...)
# Make sure to add a space before the suffix so it appears in the cell.
# You can use this with as many input variables as required letting
# you add as many strings, formulas, or numbers together.
The result should be something like this. In my example, the cell in question is the final value of Ethereum on a balance sheet:
The above example was an easy one, since it was being used as a test, all my summed values were ints, if I had floating point numbers, they would run away to max decimal places (not very pretty).
The function will drag out and expand intelligently to other cells like any other formula.
Adjusting accuracy of floating point values inside a CONCAT function
Sometimes, adding a cell results in a rounding problem, or an extreme amount of decimal places. You can further nest your function using ROUND(<your_data>,<decimal_places>)
Your function would look like this:
=CONCAT(ROUND(<cell_range>, ".jpg")
In your specific case, you don't need a space in the second argument as you want to append .jpg directly to the end of the string.
`
Using Macros to automate the entire process
This is extremely repeatable, and using the Macros feature, you can automate these to make much more simplified functions that allow you to enter just the variables you need, while the macro does the work in the background.
Based on Emmanuel Angelo R.’s answer, I would advice learning to differentiate between fixed cell references and dynamic ones. The following applies:
Cell A1 contains the suffix you would like to add, e.g. ‘.jpg’
Row 2 contains headings, e.g. B2 = ‘Old Filename’ and ‘New Filename’
Cells A3:A¹ contain your filenames
Cells B3:B contain you concatenation formula
In cell B3, type =concatenate(A3;$a$1).² If your locale requires comma as separator, replace my semicolons with commas. Copy cell B3 by selecting it and pressing Ctrl + C. Move the cursor to cell A3, press Ctrl + ↓ (down arror on your cursor keys); this will move you to the bottom of the list of file names. Move your cursor right, then press Ctrl + Shift + ↑; this will select all cells up to the last cell with contents (the one you just wrote your formula in). Press Ctrl + V to paste your contents.
Adding dollar signs in front of your row/column coordinates, will lock that coordinate when pasted. Say you had a list of file types in cells b1–z1 (e.g. jpg, jpeg, tga, bmp, png et c.). An easy way to create the formula would then be by first typing it in cell B3 as =concatenate(A3;B$1), then paste it to every cell till the end of your file names list (cell z3); these cells would then read …A3;b$1, …A3;C$1 et c. When copying it for all the rows below
You could select the entire range of cells with formulas in row 3 and run a search and replace, replacing all instances of ‘A3;’ by ‘A3;$’, effectively inserting a dollar in front of all the cell references, allowing you to, should the need arise, copy it horizontally as well as vertically (the latter being covered by the $ in front of 1).
¹ This means cells from A3 and however far down your sheet goes
² Strictly speaking, it is only necessary to type it as a$1.
I'm merging columns in Libre Office using the CONCATENATE function.
I'm merging all text using:
CONCATENATE(A1," ",B1," ",C1," ",D1," ",E1," ",F1," ",G1)
According to this suggestion, I should be able to apply the function over the whole column by dragging the plus sign; however, when I drag the plus sign, it only copies the first line, but I want to merge the next row.
How can I merge the columns correctly?
#oczdref, I am not sure why this would not work in your situation. Here is what I did (please ignore the ; separators, in your case they should remain ,)
I also found out that you must enable the "AutoCalculate" under Tools -> Cell contents
so that when you drag the autocomplete function instead of getting the result
something like this:
and the result that i want to.