"Colin Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've created the custom variable org-table-export-delimiter so that the user > may customize the string that delimits the columns exported. > > I believe this is useful because in some areas (namely, my office) people > insist on the files being in csv (comma separated values). > > I've also noticed (but haven't bothered fixing yet) that if a field contains > the delimiter string (be it a tab or a comma), then the resulting exported > file has misaligned columns. In csv format, this is remedied by surround > the offending columns in double quotes. I'm not sure, but I believe tab > separated format usually handles separator character disambiguation in a > similar way. > > I've attached the patch for my change, but as this patch is the first thing > I've contributed to org-mode, I'm still waiting on the paperwork from the > gnu foundation. Also, I've actually never contributed a patch to a free > project before, so I'm sorry if the patch file is incorrectly formatted.
My version of org-mode already exports in CSV format just fine. I create a test file ,----[ x.org ] | | Z | B | C | D | | |-------+-------+-------+---------| | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | | 7,234 | 7,222 | 154.0 | 11 | | | abc | def | ghi | jkl,lmn | `---- M-x org-table-export prompts for a filename (x.csv) and a format orgtbl-to-csv and I get this ,----[ x.csv ] | Z,B,C,D | 1,2,3,4 | "7,234","7,222",154.0,11 | abc,def,ghi,"jkl,lmn" `---- I have the following settings in my .emacs since I export to CSV by default ,---- | (setq org-table-export-default-format "orgtbl-to-csv") `---- Org-mode version 6.10c (release_6.10c-20-g17c55f1 <- from git describe) which is 20 commits after the release_6.10c tag on commit 17c55f1b10b2ad77b830bc057c722ffc99611337 ^^^^^^^ This has been available for a long time I believe. -Bernt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
