From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need to know how to goto-column Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:01:48 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20201203114617.GF7554@tuxteam.de> <87mtyubk4v.fsf@web.de> <87o8jaa2hz.fsf@web.de> <877dpy9wz0.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1791"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 07:05:29 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 1kl4Dh-0000N2-GC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 07:05:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44844 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kl4Dg-0006pE-H2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:05:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60274) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kl4Cw-0006p1-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:04:42 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:55583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kl4Cu-0006wZ-Ra for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:04:42 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.57]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C0006.000000005FC9D176.00001ABB; Fri, 04 Dec 2020 06:04:38 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877dpy9wz0.fsf@web.de> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:125953 Archived-At: * Michael Heerdegen [2020-12-04 04:34]: > Jean Louis writes: > > > (align BEG END &optional SEPARATE RULES EXCLUDE-RULES) > > Yeah, this is not bad. > > I chose to implement something that transforms a table given as a list > of lists to a string. So that I can e.g. call > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (insert (my-print-table-to-string > '((1 "xx") (20 "yyy")) > `(,#'number-to-string ,#'identity) ; how cols are formatted > '(left right))) ; col alignments > #+end_src > > and I would get > > 1 xx > 20 yyy Show me the `my-print-table-to-string' if you have it. That is same approach just without converting numbes to strings. Jean