From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need to know how to goto-column Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:15:20 +0200 Message-ID: <83360mf0mf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20201203114617.GF7554@tuxteam.de> <87mtyubk4v.fsf@web.de> <87o8jaa2hz.fsf@web.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1199"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 09:18:04 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kl6Hz-0000Bo-EM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:18:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53644 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kl6Hy-0001UJ-G3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 03:18:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kl6Ff-0000QG-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 03:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kl6Ff-0007oD-8S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 03:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1113 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kl6Fe-00007a-HT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 03:15:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 4 Dec 2020 03:00:33 +0300) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125967 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 03:00:33 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > AFAIK we don't have anything built-in that allows to print a table > > conveniently. I can offer some code I wrote for myself the last time I > > needed something like this. > > > > What I know Emacs does have is ses, the "Simple Emacs Spreadsheet", and > > table support in Org-Mode. But they probably help only if you also use > > the same tools to save your data. > > Yes, I have tried SES and I use Org tables. Alignment of text should > not be in tables, just something like > > FIELD FIELD HERE AND MORE > FIELD AND MORE FIELD AND MORE TOO > MORE HERE AND HERE ALSO MORE Did you look at align.el? (Sorry if someone already mentioned that and I missed it.)