From: Benjamin Lewis <bclewis@cs.sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:18:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yy7oof7hv3fr.fsf@css.css.sfu.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.448.1040347168.19936.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On 20 Dec 2002, Miles Bader wrote:
> John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:
>>> max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 6291.456 cs 70
>>> ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63
>>
>>> Anyone have a good recipe for this?
>>
>> Without a delimiter, there is no way for align.el to figure this
>> out. It is only regexp based, not a true parser.
>
> In this case, the delimiter would appear to be whitespace (e.g. [ \t]+);
> does align.el not support that well?
In this case, it appears that not all the spaces are to be considered as
delimiters. You have to say something like "treat every other space as a
delimiter".
--
Benjamin Lewis
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-20 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-19 20:54 align.el: how to align space delimited text tables? Benjamin Rutt
2002-12-19 22:31 ` John Wiegley
2002-12-20 1:18 ` Miles Bader
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2002-12-20 2:18 ` Benjamin Lewis [this message]
2002-12-20 8:34 ` John Wiegley
2002-12-20 17:36 ` Kevin Rodgers
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2002-12-20 9:29 Victor Kirk
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