From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Aligning text into neat columns
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:41:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0r6us0s.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im6qmdaf.fsf@dick> (dick.r.chiang@gmail.com's message of "Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:26:32 -0500")
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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