* align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?
@ 2002-12-19 20:54 Benjamin Rutt
2002-12-19 22:31 ` John Wiegley
2002-12-20 17:36 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Benjamin Rutt @ 2002-12-19 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
I have a buffer in text-mode that I'd like to align using align.el.
Here are the contents:
max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
max 6291.456 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
I'd like to align the fields to the following:
max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
max 6291.456 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
Anyone have a good recipe for this?
BTW, I'm using the align.el that comes with Emacs 21.
--
Benjamin
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* Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?
2002-12-19 20:54 Benjamin Rutt
@ 2002-12-19 22:31 ` John Wiegley
2002-12-20 1:18 ` Miles Bader
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2002-12-20 17:36 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: John Wiegley @ 2002-12-19 22:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> On Thu Dec 19, Benjamin writes:
> I'd like to align the fields to the following:
> max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 6291.456 cs 70
> ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> Anyone have a good recipe for this?
Without a delimiter, there is no way for align.el to figure this
out. It is only regexp based, not a true parser.
It will align TeX tables, for example, because those use & as a
delimiter.
John
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* Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?
2002-12-19 22:31 ` John Wiegley
@ 2002-12-20 1:18 ` Miles Bader
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From: Miles Bader @ 2002-12-20 1:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:
> > max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 6291.456 cs 70
> > ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
>
> > Anyone have a good recipe for this?
>
> Without a delimiter, there is no way for align.el to figure this
> out. It is only regexp based, not a true parser.
In this case, the delimiter would appear to be whitespace (e.g. [ \t]+);
does align.el not support that well?
-Miles
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* Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?
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@ 2002-12-20 2:18 ` Benjamin Lewis
2002-12-20 8:34 ` John Wiegley
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From: Benjamin Lewis @ 2002-12-20 2:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 20 Dec 2002, Miles Bader wrote:
> John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:
>>> max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 6291.456 cs 70
>>> ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
>>
>>> Anyone have a good recipe for this?
>>
>> Without a delimiter, there is no way for align.el to figure this
>> out. It is only regexp based, not a true parser.
>
> In this case, the delimiter would appear to be whitespace (e.g. [ \t]+);
> does align.el not support that well?
In this case, it appears that not all the spaces are to be considered as
delimiters. You have to say something like "treat every other space as a
delimiter".
--
Benjamin Lewis
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-- Walt Kelly
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* Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?
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2002-12-20 2:18 ` Benjamin Lewis
@ 2002-12-20 8:34 ` John Wiegley
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From: John Wiegley @ 2002-12-20 8:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> On Thu Dec 19, Miles writes:
> In this case, the delimiter would appear to be whitespace (e.g. [
> \t]+); does align.el not support that well?
Try passing that regexp to M-x align-regexp, see if it works...
John
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* RE: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?
@ 2002-12-20 9:29 Victor Kirk
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From: Victor Kirk @ 2002-12-20 9:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
> max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> max 6291.456 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> I'd like to align the fields to the following:
> max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> max 6291.456 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> Anyone have a good recipe for this?
Try googling for ws-align.el by Matthias Helmling, this
provides align-cols which does exactly what you want.
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* Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?
2002-12-19 20:54 Benjamin Rutt
2002-12-19 22:31 ` John Wiegley
@ 2002-12-20 17:36 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2002-12-20 17:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> I have a buffer in text-mode that I'd like to align using align.el.
> Here are the contents:
>
> max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> max 6291.456 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
>
> I'd like to align the fields to the following:
>
> max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> max 6291.456 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
> max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
>
> Anyone have a good recipe for this?
1. Mark the region (C-x h if the text is the entire contents of the buffer,
or the buffer has already been narrowed to the text).
2. Replace the region:
C-u M-|
awk '{printf("%s %-8s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s\n", C-q C-j
$1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12)}' RET
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