[Orgmode] Re: Tip: How to copy&paste a table from Firefox to Org

[Bernt Hansen]

Jan Böcker <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> posting in case this is useful to someone else:
>
> I just figured out how to copy & paste tabular data from Firefox to an
> Org buffer (in my case: a train schedule from www.bahn.de).
>
> - Select data in Firefox
> - Paste into Org, select it as the region
> - M-x replace-regexp <RET> C-i \ | ^ <RET> | <RET>
>       
>   C-i inserts a tab character (you can also use C-q <TAB> instead).
>   We replace each beginning of a line and each tab character with "|".
>
> - Place the cursor on the table and press C-c C-c to align it

Isn't this the same as

  - Select data in Firefox
  - Paste into Org. 
  - C-x C-x (select it as the region)
  - M-x org-table-convert-region

?

-Bernt