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From: jrwats <jrwats@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Fancier align-regexp?
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:25:49 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e3b99bf-a2ad-43a8-8a56-de3f47c0455a@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Input:
Lorem ipsum dolor: sit amet
consectetur: adipiscing elit. Etiam
sed purus: Vestibulum
ante: ipsum
primis in: faucibus

You'll have to paste the following into emacs I'm afraid (or set your
browser to monospace font?) to get this to look 1/2 decent.

I want (the colons aligned with the words preceding them "following"
the colon to the aligned point)
 Internet IP Address:  	67.170.74.92
         Subnet Mask: 	255.255.252.0
     Default Gateway: 	67.170.72.1
                DNS1: 	68.87.69.146
                DNS2: 	68.87.85.98
                DNS3: 	68.87.78.130


calling align-regexp on ":" doesn't work obviously and puts the spaces
between the words preceding the colon:
rem ipsum dolor : sit amet
consectetur       : adipiscing elit. Etiam
sed purus         : Vestibulum
ante              : ipsum
primis in         : faucibus

I know align-regexp has a fancier method to use with a prefix arg, but
I'm not smart enough for it.  Is it possible to accomplish this with
align-regexp?  A macro?





             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-13  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13  5:25 jrwats [this message]
2009-01-13 14:57 ` Fancier align-regexp? Scott Frazer
2009-01-13 22:12   ` jrwats

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