From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Kalb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display of text in columns? Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:45:39 GMT Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences Message-ID: <873bg79v0s.fsf@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx> References: <877j5jamd2.fsf@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145612475 29714 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2006 09:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 21 11:41:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWs8U-000621-5K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:41:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWs8T-00020b-JC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:41:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny08.POSTED!8878550a!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v8oT/hOjQ0RlqERqN3yMjSu1Svs= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.249.41.2 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: trndny08 1145609139 71.249.41.2 (Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:45:39 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:45:39 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138920 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34538 Archived-At: "ez" == Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Jim Kalb 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