From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ivowel@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: tab/csv spreadsheet-type tabbing mode? Date: 22 Jan 2007 07:37:03 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169480223.427010.304410@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169480515 21976 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2007 15:41:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:41:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 22 16:41:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H91Io-0001xL-IK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:41:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H91Io-00068y-12 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:41:46 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.aset.psu.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.148.61.240 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169480236 21768 127.0.0.1 (22 Jan 2007 15:37:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:37:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20070114 SeaMonkey/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.148.61.240; posting-account=6QmiRA0AAADmcpEzx1l3yLgZeXx2X3vB Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144913 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40517 Archived-At: dear emacs experts: I often have to look at files that come from spreadsheets. (No, I do not need emacs to become a spreadsheet; I did look at these solutions.) What I would love is a mode for a display that takes all the currently visible on-screen data, and sets the tabs at the irregular places that are warranted by the maximum length of each column on the screen (and presumably sets truncate-lines). oh, and tabs=field-delimiters could be either real tabs, or commas (that are not inside quotations), as they are in standard .csv files. A second-best solution would be to set field widths not based on what is currently visible, but based on the entire file's columns. Having such a mode would make editing such data a lot simpler for me. Does it exist somewhere? pointers appreciated. /iaw