Re: Dreaming in XEmacs

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Joe Corneli <jcorneli@mail.ma.utexas.edu> writes:

> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> Item 1.  Real-time array neatener for XEmacs
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> I use XEmacs to write TeX code and when I encounter an array (especially a
> big one) I usually begin to feel a bit of a panic.  Wouldn't it be nice if
> XEmacs kept the &'s lined up vertically, so that this took 15 seconds or
> less to write (instead of a minute or so of tedious fiddling):
>
> $$
> \begin{array}{ccc}
> 0          & 1     & \alpha \\
> \mathbf{F} & \beta & 1      \\
> 0          & 1     & \gamma \\
> \end{array}
> $$

(I'm surprised about the `$$'.)

Try the align.el package.  I do M-x align-current RET, and there I am.
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