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* Aligning text into neat columns
@ 2021-02-18  0:26 dick.r.chiang
  2021-02-18  0:41 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
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From: dick.r.chiang @ 2021-02-18  0:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs developers

Seems like there ought to be facile way to take:

Fred (123) 456-7890
Alice (123) 456-7890
Mary-Anne (123) 456-7890

and realigns to:

Fred      (123) 456-7890
Alice     (123) 456-7890
Mary-Anne (123) 456-7890

Googling suggests libraries `align`, `tabulated-list`, and `table`, but none
of these got the job done for me.  I wrote my own, but it wasn't completely
trivial (40 slocs and a lil more than an hour of fiddling).



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* Re: Aligning text into neat columns
@ 2021-02-18  0:40 dick.r.chiang
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From: dick.r.chiang @ 2021-02-18  0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs developers

Hmmm... for whatever reason C-u M-x align wasn't doing it for me, but now is.
Sorry for the noise.



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* Re: Aligning text into neat columns
  2021-02-18  0:26 Aligning text into neat columns dick.r.chiang
@ 2021-02-18  0:41 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Basil L. Contovounesios @ 2021-02-18  0:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dick.r.chiang; +Cc: Emacs developers

dick.r.chiang@gmail.com writes:

> Seems like there ought to be facile way to take:
>
> Fred (123) 456-7890
> Alice (123) 456-7890
> Mary-Anne (123) 456-7890
>
> and realigns to:
>
> Fred      (123) 456-7890
> Alice     (123) 456-7890
> Mary-Anne (123) 456-7890
>
> Googling suggests libraries `align`, `tabulated-list`, and `table`, but none
> of these got the job done for me.

M-x align-regexp RET SPC RET is one possibility in this example;
there are probably others.

-- 
Basil



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