From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:39:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87shf9v2hj.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> References: <87tvzpx1qo.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506444049 7816 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 16:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:40:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 26 18:40:43 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwsuY-0001QE-NB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwsue-0008Te-BF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwsuB-0008TX-TG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwsu9-0001Q7-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:40:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37829 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwsu8-0001Ph-PH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwstv-0007Y8-GP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:40:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:YSl+S7ZqPIOnYGb9s+8iCjzqhgI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114424 Archived-At: Sivaram Neelakantan writes: > On Tue, Sep 26 2017,Alberto Luaces wrote: > > > [snipped 8 lines] > >> >> Then I thought of overlays, but the manual says that if there are a big >> number of substitutions, maybe it could be a better idea to use text >> properties instead. >> >> So, from the top of your head, what would be the less painful method to >> change every comma to a comma+space, or at least change the color of the >> commas to anything more distinguishable and attach it to the language >> mode hook? >> > > Does org-mode have a means of making columns out of comma separated > entries just for viewing? I vaguely remember that Excel style columns > were produced on CSV rows when in org-mode I think that you are right on this one. Unfortunately, my documents are source code, and I wanted not to have to transform them manually if possible, but in an automatic way as some other posters have taught me. Thanks anyway, Sivaram! -- Alberto