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Subject: Re: align.el:  how to align space delimited text tables?
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John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:
> >     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.

In this case, the delimiter would appear to be whitespace (e.g. [ \t]+);
does align.el not support that well?

-Miles
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