table-manipulation layer

Table of Contents

• Description
  • Features:
• Install
• Key bindings
  • Table.el
  • Table manipulation transient state
• For Contributers and Power-Users

Description

This layer adds support for editing table.el more intuitive ways through table-manipulation-transient-state.

Features:

This layer adds key bindings to functions from table.el, which allows you to create / convert / export tables in buffer.

The followings are the list of commands been implemented as a transient-state. See Key bindings for how-to-use.

• jump to next/previous cells
• split cells vertically/horizontally
• resize cells
• merge cells
• justify contents of cells

table-manipulation-transient-state enters a small table-editing buffer when executed. You may quit the transient-state but stay to the table-editing buffer. The table-editing buffer is good for editing data in each cells, while transient-state works well for editing structures of table.

Install

To install this private configuration layer, clone it under .../path/to/.emacs.d/private/. Or, follow the instruction written in this file.

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add table-manipulation to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Key bindings

Table.el

Key binding	Description
SPC x T	+table.el prefix
SPC x T .	table-manipulation-transient-state
SPC x T c	create table from structured region
SPC x T C	convert org-mode table <-> table.el
SPC x T d	delete table skelton from table
SPC x T e	export table to other markup languages(html/latex/cals)
SPC x T i	get information of table at point
SPC x T n	create new table
SPC x T r / R	recognize table at point / all table in buffer
SPC x T u / U	unrecognize table at point / all table in buffer

Table manipulation transient state

Key binding	Description
n	jump to next cell
p	jump to previous cell
k	go up
j	go down
h	go left
l	go right
\vert	horizontally split cell
-	vertically split cell
H	narrow cell
L	widen cell
K	shorten cell
J	heighten cell
a	merge cell to the left
d	merge cell to the right
w	merge cell above
s	merge cell below
cl	justify cell to left
cc	justify cell to center
cr	justify cell to right
ct	justify cell to top
cm	justify cell to middle
cb	justify cell to bottom
cn	justify cell to none
Cl	justify column to left
Cc	justify column to center
Cr	justify column to right
Ct	justify column to top
Cm	justify column to middle
Cb	justify column to bottom
Cn	justify column to none
Rl	justify row to left
Rc	justify row to center
Rr	justify row to right
Rt	justify row to top
Rm	justify row to middle
Rb	justify row to bottom
Rn	justify row to none
RET	quit transient-state only
q	quit transient-state and the table-editing buffer
Q	quit transient-state and abort the changes in the table-editing buffer
u	undo
C-r	redo

For Contributers and Power-Users

There is more detailed documentation in Layer Manager file. This may be useful for contributers as well as for power-users who wants to modify key bindings as you like.