RE: shortcut for align-regexp

[Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>]

The command align-regexp is written to prompt you for a regular expression if you use it interactively.

The following code does what you describe you want.

    (defun my-common-align (begin end)
      "Align text in the region on '=' and '<-'."
      (interactive "r")
      (let ((common-align-regexp "\\(?:=\\|<-\\)"))
	(align-regexp begin end common-align-regexp)))
    (global-set-key "\C-a" 'my-common-align)

The choice of key is yours, but `C-a' is move-beginning-of-line almost everywhere. I might recommend `C-c a' instead.

,Douglas
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-----Original Message-----
From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Jannis
Sent: Wednesday, 2013 April 17 08:35
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: shortcut for align-regexp

Hi emacs users,


this most probably is a beginners question ... googeling however yielded 
now exlanation suitable for my emacs experience.

I would love to bind single key combination (like C-a) to the 
align-regexp command and use = and <- as alignment regexpressions. How 
would I do this?

Without this I always have to type:

M-align-regexp RET <- RET


Thanks a lot
Jannis