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From: Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie>
Subject: Re: List into Columns
Date: 23 Jun 2004 17:22:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jtynt0o.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: de3ad953.0406230718.46c98f8b@posting.google.com

googleartist@yahoo.com (Artist) writes:

> How I can convert a list into columns , in the similar way `ls` does on unix.

Does this give you a clue?:

(setq mylist '("one" "two" "three and a half"))
(dolist (element mylist) 
        (insert (format "%s\n" element)))

If not, explain a bit more.

Brendan
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-23 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-23 15:18 List into Columns Artist
2004-06-23 16:22 ` Brendan Halpin [this message]
2004-06-24 15:09   ` Artist
2004-06-25  8:32     ` Brendan Halpin
2004-06-25 17:14       ` Artist

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