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 02:47:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87r1w3tb79.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <57B4372A-CC2F-46E1-8CF9-59CBCB962774@traduction-libre.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="1267"; 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:cXjPo8A2VozBoRgSod0GhI5z7aE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 02:49:13 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 1jUgLB-0000Dh-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 02:49:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36386 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgLA-0008Fs-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 20:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgKp-0008FY-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 20:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgJG-000571-GA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 20:48:50 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:39970) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgJF-00053x-Vo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 20:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUgJD-000W9T-VD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 02:47:11 +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:122994 Archived-At: Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > @Eli > > No, reading the manual did not help, hence my > question, but your reply that I should read the > manual did suggest that I had missed something > important and I went back to the manual and it looks > like this mode is for editing a file that has 2 (or > more ?) columns, or to add a column to an > existing file. > > I have never seen such a file in text format so the > purpose was not obvious. > > [...] > > What are the use cases for this feature set ? @Jean-Christophe Helary, 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 there you have both a file to look at, and an example use case. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal