* Baffled by M-x align/ align-regexp
@ 2008-04-17 9:09 Sivaram Neelakantan
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From: Sivaram Neelakantan @ 2008-04-17 9:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I wanted to align text and so rooted around the manual to find out how
to do it. Found align but couldn't figure how to get it to align text
the way I wanted.
Say I want to go from
1 200 3 4
10 11 12 14
999 10 4000 897
to
1 200 3 4
10 11 12 14
999 10 4000 897
How do I do that? I tried M-x align, align-regexp with \\( +\\), with
C-u 3 M-x align-regexp \\( +\\) and leaving the rest as
defaults. Nothing worked.
Is this the right function to use? I'd expect,with text too,I'd have
a similar requirement; either right or left justified.
sivaram
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* Re: Baffled by M-x align/ align-regexp
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@ 2008-04-19 10:58 ` Sven Naumann
2008-04-20 16:13 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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From: Sven Naumann @ 2008-04-19 10:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
> Say I want to go from
>
> 1 200 3 4
> 10 11 12 14
> 999 10 4000 897
>
> to
>
> 1 200 3 4
> 10 11 12 14
> 999 10 4000 897
>
C-u M-x align-regexp RET \(\s-*\)SPACE RET 1 RET 0 RET y
Sven
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* Re: Baffled by M-x align/ align-regexp
2008-04-19 10:58 ` Sven Naumann
@ 2008-04-20 16:13 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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From: Sivaram Neelakantan @ 2008-04-20 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Sven Naumann <svenau@gmx.net> writes:
> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> Say I want to go from
>>
>> 1 200 3 4
>> 10 11 12 14
>> 999 10 4000 897
>>
>> to
>>
>> 1 200 3 4
>> 10 11 12 14
>> 999 10 4000 897
>>
>
>
> C-u M-x align-regexp RET \(\s-*\)SPACE RET 1 RET 0 RET y
>
Thank you, that worked. It also is now answered on the emacswiki link
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryAlignment
sivaram
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