From: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:31:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8765tp4p4m.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wc3bs3hsp9d.fsf@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu
>>>>> On Thu Dec 19, Benjamin writes:
> 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?
Without a delimiter, there is no way for align.el to figure this
out. It is only regexp based, not a true parser.
It will align TeX tables, for example, because those use & as a
delimiter.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-19 22:31 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 [this message]
2002-12-20 1:18 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <mailman.448.1040347168.19936.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-12-20 2:18 ` Benjamin Lewis
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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