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, 25 Apr 2020 13:40:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87v9lng5dx.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <57B4372A-CC2F-46E1-8CF9-59CBCB962774@traduction-libre.org> <83mu707zpa.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="108057"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Andreas , Jovelou , Jonas , Ladbon , Mats , Pebben , Per To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:dqWa0dfev6jHBprB0LjOAzKuVXk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 13:41:16 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 1jSJBL-000S0W-Np for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35434 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSJBK-0004oy-Np for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 07:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSJAx-0004oo-9n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 07:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSJAw-00052F-M9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 07:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:40992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSJAv-0004zg-W4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 07:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jSJAu-000RaK-DC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:40:48 +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 = 2020/04/25 07:40:48 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:122937 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the two >> column mode triggered by C-x 6 2. What is the >> difference with C-x 5 2 ? > > Did you read the section in the Emacs manual that > describes this mode? I think it answers your question. Does it also address all the drawbacks with this format? While certainly a technical tour de force _and_ I'm 100% supportive of the all-freedom notion to do whatever one likes with one's editor and files, it still makes sense to have text as plain as "text/plain; charset=us-ascii" and then do formatting and/or post-processing with whatever tools one prefers, be it HTML or LaTeX or groff or for that matter no markup whatsoever, just an external layer of computing to fit anyone's and everyone's preferences for the intended purpose? Data wants to be data! Still, again bows and HATS OFF for this technical wizardry from author Daniel Pfeiffer and other contributors to two-column.el. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal