From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: two column mode ? Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 03:01:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87mu6rtaio.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <57B4372A-CC2F-46E1-8CF9-59CBCB962774@traduction-libre.org> <83368kvuar.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="52771"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:8c2XmmgeNwZjLUKfEZuvcg+N1jU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 03:02:50 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 1jUgYL-000Dbi-Vh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 03:02:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38236 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgYL-0002jb-1G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 21:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgXo-0002it-UE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 21:02:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgXZ-00062G-Aj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 21:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:51040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgXY-0005xD-H0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 21:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgXW-000Ckt-Cp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 03:01:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=159.69.161.202; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/01 20:47:12 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 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:122995 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> What are the use cases for this feature set ? > > You pretty much summarized them above, and I don't > know more about this than what I can glean from the > manual. @Eli Zaretskii I think @Jean-Christophe Helary meant applied or "real world" use cases or whatever one is supposed to call 'em - again, [c]heck out the file where its defined, two-column.el - I have it in /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/textmodes/two-column.el.gz which is a good example. Not only is it an applied/real-world use case, it solves the problem in a way that is perhaps even preferable to other options (e.g., LaTeX) because of its interactive edit and responsiveness. Because its a task that invites perfectionism and iterative edits, while at the same time here even more than ever and elsewhere perfectionism cannot be achieved - so that means A LOT of edits, is what I'm trying to say! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal