Re: Two column editing

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>]

> On May 5, 2020, at 18:48, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 00:46, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
> 
>> On the user list, Emanuel Berg suggested that I look at the code to find examples.
> 
> There's a minimal (one line) example in the docstring of 2C-split:
> 
> First column’s text    sSs  Second column’s text
>                       \___/\
>                        /    \
>   5 character Separator      You type  M-5 C-x 6 s  with the point here.
> 
> 
>> First question: what am I missing ?
> 
> I think you're missing the prefix argument.

Yes, but, the manual says:

"F2 s or C-x 6 s looks for a column separator, which is a string that appears on each line between the two columns. You can specify the width of the separator with a numeric argument to F2 s; that many characters, before point, constitute the separator string. By default, the width is 1, so the column separator is the character before point."

So if the default is 1 my 1 character wide TAB should do the trick, shouldn't it ?

Just out or curiosity I tried M-1 C-x 6 s and the same thing happened.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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