Text substitution only in specific column of org table

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I came across this problem today: I had a table with many entries and wanted to perform a text substitution (normal text substitution was sufficient as I hardly ever need regex text substitutions) in all cells of a single column. I ended up pressing y and n many times, instead of just ! as it would've been had I had a way of restricting the text substitution (I used M-% / query-replace).



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  • See region-extract-function which is respected by query-replace. The tricky part is to get the buffer-positions of the table slice's rows.
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I came across this problem today: I had a table with many entries and wanted to perform a text substitution (normal text substitution was sufficient as I hardly ever need regex text substitutions) in all cells of a single column. I ended up pressing y and n many times, instead of just ! as it would've been had I had a way of restricting the text substitution (I used M-% / query-replace).



What's the best way of performing this task?






org-mode org-table query-replace table







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  • See region-extract-function which is respected by query-replace. The tricky part is to get the buffer-positions of the table slice's rows.
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I came across this problem today: I had a table with many entries and wanted to perform a text substitution (normal text substitution was sufficient as I hardly ever need regex text substitutions) in all cells of a single column. I ended up pressing y and n many times, instead of just ! as it would've been had I had a way of restricting the text substitution (I used M-% / query-replace).



What's the best way of performing this task?






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I came across this problem today: I had a table with many entries and wanted to perform a text substitution (normal text substitution was sufficient as I hardly ever need regex text substitutions) in all cells of a single column. I ended up pressing y and n many times, instead of just ! as it would've been had I had a way of restricting the text substitution (I used M-% / query-replace).



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  • See region-extract-function which is respected by query-replace. The tricky part is to get the buffer-positions of the table slice's rows.
    – politza
    4 hours ago

















  • See region-extract-function which is respected by query-replace. The tricky part is to get the buffer-positions of the table slice's rows.
    – politza
    4 hours ago
















See region-extract-function which is respected by query-replace. The tricky part is to get the buffer-positions of the table slice's rows.
– politza
4 hours ago





See region-extract-function which is respected by query-replace. The tricky part is to get the buffer-positions of the table slice's rows.
– politza
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You can transpose the table with org-table-transpose-table-at-point, then select the relevant row (which used to be a column).



Narrow to region, replace-string, widen, and transpose again.



Note that you may lose hlines when transposing.






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    You can select the column as a rectangular region using C-x SPC
    (rectangle-mark-mode) and then M-% (query-replace) will be
    limited to that rectangle.






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      You can transpose the table with org-table-transpose-table-at-point, then select the relevant row (which used to be a column).



      Narrow to region, replace-string, widen, and transpose again.



      Note that you may lose hlines when transposing.






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        You can transpose the table with org-table-transpose-table-at-point, then select the relevant row (which used to be a column).



        Narrow to region, replace-string, widen, and transpose again.



        Note that you may lose hlines when transposing.






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          You can transpose the table with org-table-transpose-table-at-point, then select the relevant row (which used to be a column).



          Narrow to region, replace-string, widen, and transpose again.



          Note that you may lose hlines when transposing.






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          You can transpose the table with org-table-transpose-table-at-point, then select the relevant row (which used to be a column).



          Narrow to region, replace-string, widen, and transpose again.



          Note that you may lose hlines when transposing.







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              You can select the column as a rectangular region using C-x SPC
              (rectangle-mark-mode) and then M-% (query-replace) will be
              limited to that rectangle.






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                You can select the column as a rectangular region using C-x SPC
                (rectangle-mark-mode) and then M-% (query-replace) will be
                limited to that rectangle.






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                  You can select the column as a rectangular region using C-x SPC
                  (rectangle-mark-mode) and then M-% (query-replace) will be
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                  You can select the column as a rectangular region using C-x SPC
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