From: Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fancier align-regexp?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:57:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231858629.815474@sj-nntpcache-2.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e3b99bf-a2ad-43a8-8a56-de3f47c0455a@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com>
jrwats wrote:
> Input:
> Lorem ipsum dolor: sit amet
> consectetur: adipiscing elit. Etiam
> sed purus: Vestibulum
> ante: ipsum
> primis in: faucibus
>
> You'll have to paste the following into emacs I'm afraid (or set your
> browser to monospace font?) to get this to look 1/2 decent.
>
> I want (the colons aligned with the words preceding them "following"
> the colon to the aligned point)
> Internet IP Address: 67.170.74.92
> Subnet Mask: 255.255.252.0
> Default Gateway: 67.170.72.1
> DNS1: 68.87.69.146
> DNS2: 68.87.85.98
> DNS3: 68.87.78.130
>
>
> calling align-regexp on ":" doesn't work obviously and puts the spaces
> between the words preceding the colon:
> rem ipsum dolor : sit amet
> consectetur : adipiscing elit. Etiam
> sed purus : Vestibulum
> ante : ipsum
> primis in : faucibus
>
> I know align-regexp has a fancier method to use with a prefix arg, but
> I'm not smart enough for it. Is it possible to accomplish this with
> align-regexp? A macro?
>
C-u M-x align-regexp \(\s-*.+\): -1 1 n
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2009-01-13 5:25 Fancier align-regexp? jrwats
2009-01-13 14:57 ` Scott Frazer [this message]
2009-01-13 22:12 ` jrwats
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