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From: Jim Kalb <kalb@aya.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Display of text in columns?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:45:39 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bg79v0s.fsf@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.691.1145604861.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"ez" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

  >> From: Jim Kalb <kalb@aya.yale.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:55:05
  >> GMT
  >> 
  >> I'd like to display several columns of text using emacs, so that
  >> (for example) if the screen is 120 characters wide, the fill column
  >> is 60, and I'm using a 2-column display, the text at any point in
  >> the file would display starting in the first column, reach the
  >> bottom of the screen, and then continue in the second column.
  >> Possible? If so, how?

  ez> Is two-column.el what you are looking for?

Don't think so. t-c.el seems to display 2 different buffers. What I'd
like to do is display a single buffer, but in two columns, so that when
you get to the end of what fits in the first column the text continues
in the second.

-- 
Jim Kalb

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-21  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 22:55 Display of text in columns? Jim Kalb
2006-04-21  7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.691.1145604861.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-21  8:45   ` Jim Kalb [this message]
2006-04-21  8:58     ` David Kastrup
2006-04-21 18:55       ` Nikos Apostolakis
2006-04-21 19:23         ` Nikos Apostolakis
     [not found]       ` <mailman.725.1145645771.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-21 19:22         ` Tassilo Horn
2006-04-22  1:00           ` Nikos Apostolakis
2006-05-19 12:14         ` andlind
2006-05-20 14:25           ` Nikos Apostolakis
2006-04-21  8:49 ` Oliver Scholz

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