From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tab/csv spreadsheet-type tabbing mode?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:11:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv64au5q6w.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1169668372.719868.171250@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com
> Can I safely assume that this does not exist yet?
I believe so, yes. The only thing that comes to mind is csv-mode but it's
not doing what you ask for.
>> What I would love is a mode for a display that takes all the currently
>> visible on-screen data, and sets the tabs at the irregular places that
>> are warranted by the maximum length of each column on the screen (and
>> presumably sets truncate-lines). oh, and tabs=field-delimiters could
>> be either real tabs, or commas (that are not inside quotations), as
>> they are in standard .csv files.
Using `display' text properties, you it's possible to write a package that
does that.
>> A second-best solution would be to set field widths not based on what
>> is currently visible, but based on the entire file's columns.
That would be fairly easy.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-26 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-22 15:37 tab/csv spreadsheet-type tabbing mode? ivowel
2007-01-24 19:52 ` ivowel
2007-01-26 5:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-01-27 2:36 ` Tim X
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=jwv64au5q6w.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org \
--to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).