From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables? Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:36:00 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E035500.6090200@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040406113 19480 80.91.224.249 (20 Dec 2002 17:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18PR9g-00053X-00 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:41:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18PR8H-0007Kr-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:40:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1040405751 3346859 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108345 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4875 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4875 Benjamin Rutt wrote: > I have a buffer in text-mode that I'd like to align using align.el. > Here are the contents: > > 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 > > I'd like to align the fields to the following: > > 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? 1. Mark the region (C-x h if the text is the entire contents of the buffer, or the buffer has already been narrowed to the text). 2. Replace the region: C-u M-| awk '{printf("%s %-8s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s\n", C-q C-j $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12)}' RET -- Kevin Rodgers