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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Want to write up quick balance sheet, etc.  Via tables?
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:17:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo43c60f.fsf@informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: l0irfe$ihn$1@panix2.panix.com

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


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-08 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-08 21:50 Want to write up quick balance sheet, etc. Via tables? David Combs
2013-09-08 22:17 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2013-09-08 22:49   ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-09  5:52   ` David Combs
2013-09-09  5:56   ` David Combs
2013-09-09  6:02   ` David Combs
2013-09-09  9:10     ` Óscar Fuentes
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1644.1378717842.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-01 18:54       ` David Combs
2013-10-01 20:46         ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-09-09  7:38   ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1637.1378712194.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-01 18:57     ` David Combs

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