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>>>>> 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