Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display)

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

Sivaram Neelakantan writes:

> On Tue, Sep 26 2017,Alberto Luaces wrote:
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>> Then I thought of overlays, but the manual says that if there are a big
>> number of substitutions, maybe it could be a better idea to use text
>> properties instead.
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>> So, from the top of your head, what would be the less painful method to
>> change every comma to a comma+space, or at least change the color of the
>> commas to anything more distinguishable and attach it to the language
>> mode hook?
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> Does org-mode have a means of making columns out of comma separated
> entries just for viewing?  I vaguely remember that Excel style columns
> were produced on CSV rows when in org-mode

I think that you are right on this one.  Unfortunately, my documents are
source code, and I wanted not to have to transform them manually if
possible, but in an automatic way as some other posters have taught me.

Thanks anyway, Sivaram!

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Alberto