Re: Is it possible to move a column where column on right is variable width

[Emanuel Berg]

Tomas Nordin wrote:

> Here is a suggestion using GNU sed
>
> C-x h mark-whole-buffer C-u M-|
> shell-command-on-region (with prefix to output
> in buffer)
>
> then yank this as the shell command sed -E
> 's/(.+)\t(.+)/\2\t\1/'
>
> and hope there was no tabs in
> the description.

How big is the buffer? Often one can do such
edits manually pretty quickly. Get some work on
your finger habits/muscle memory in the
bargain. May come in "hand"y :)

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