Jeff Horn seems to be explaining specifics of how to do some nitty-gritty manipulations--he mentions (quoting the manual) methods for yanking, Ccxy
The methods Jeff expressed are useful for the question posed. I recommend rectangle-kill and rectangle-yank--Cxrk and Cxry to solve this (in a very simple albeit possibly faster or slower way--depending on how many columns you want to move/sort---moving column/rectangle 3 to the 3rd position in this case--took a few seconds) I tested Juan's method/defun---works grrrrreat!! Thanks Juan P.S. I did lose the hlines like you reported; but, to put the line back was 3 key strokes: |-Tab On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Juan Pechiar <j...@pechiar.com> wrote: > If you don't mind losing h-lines, you can transpose the table, sort > rows, and transpose back. > > This code (which I previously posted to the list) transposes a table: > > #+begin_src: emacs-lisp > > (defun org-transpose-table-at-point () > "Transpose orgmode table at point, eliminate hlines" > (interactive) > (let ((contents (apply #'mapcar* #'list > (remove-if-not 'listp ;; remove 'hline from list > (org-table-to-lisp)))) ;; signals > error if not table > ) > (delete-region (org-table-begin) (org-table-end)) > (insert (mapconcat (lambda(x) (concat "| " (mapconcat 'identity x " | " > ) " |\n" )) > contents > "")) > (org-table-align) > ) > ) > > #+end_src > > Regards, > .j. > > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 02:42:55PM +0100, Gary wrote: > > Is there any way to sort the columns of a table, such that for example > > > > | Col 3 | Col 1 | Col 2 | > > > > can be converted to > > > > | Col 1 | Col 2 | Col 3 | > > |-------+-------+-------| > > | ... | ... | ... | > > > > ? > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >
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