From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Want to write up quick balance sheet, etc. Via tables? Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:38:11 +0200 Message-ID: <522D7AE3.7050502@easy-emacs.de> References: <87bo43c60f.fsf@informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378712203 11325 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2013 07:36:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:36:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 09 09:36:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VIw1b-0002Au-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:36:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49713 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIw1b-0005sc-Dv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 03:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIw1K-0005rm-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 03:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIw1D-0005nv-Op for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 03:36:26 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:53958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIw1D-0005no-FL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 03:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from purzel.sitgens (brln-4dba0c40.pool.mediaWays.net [77.186.12.64]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LjfXI-1Vq3ui40i0-00bpHd; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:36:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: <87bo43c60f.fsf@informatimago.com> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:+2Na1w7D15oqkyAkGkbyjPL/jBMP7vqh9/xJ2nnsp00 W3VTMtqM8B3cWhZAlVAQwpJYqDBedV+ehjDs5z+9gk4LMy4fsC WLr/FFFqMz98vPdrlKT+FRRZTrcRzAgVirFIkhYXa811FrWwvw DLdqQzXymQksLOTUNrthPJjVNQx7pzrlGDNKzWQ146T0n7KATG vKr9ZQF3+o70+zp/s+yVPqOYTlRVyA86b4S599l/ORkG/c2utm hTI0uh0DDf1y3JCUh7DHPltbqEDMZTXmsxdyOOFHrgpdX/UcCl gypirlKlRYOagNnVp6O7TAvPfur+S3r705Ch+FTlFeH/X1IE9N V6n6QwDqFJfO+Gatksd8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.10 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93313 Archived-At: Am 09.09.2013 00:17, schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon: > dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > >> MY QUESTION: >> >> How to make it easy, almost foolproof, to be able to quickly format >> the stuff I type in. > > > Type stuff: > > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > > Select it, type M-x align-cols RET and get: > > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > cash 20,000 short term debt 89,000 > > Put into a buffer in org-mode After replacing commata by dots M-x org-table-convert-region | cash | 20.000 | short | term | debt | 89.000 | | cash | 20.000 | short | term | debt | 89.000 | | cash | 20.000 | short | term | debt | 89.000 | | cash | 20.000 | short | term | debt | 89.000 | | cash | 20.000 | short | term | debt | 89.000 | | cash | 20.000 | short | term | debt | 89.000 |