From: roy@panix.com (Roy Smith)
Subject: Aligning colums
Date: 20 Jan 2005 10:46:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <csojp9$ccd$1@panix2.panix.com> (raw)
I've got a bunch of text that looks like this:
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxx", 2)
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxx", 2)
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxxxxxx", 2)
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxxxx", 2)
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxxxxx", 2)
I want to get the arguments lined up so it looks like:
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxx", 2)
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxx", 2)
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxxxxxx", 2)
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxxxx", 2)
foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxxxxx", 2)
What's the best way to do that? I suspect M-X align is what I want, I
can't make heads or tails out of the on-line help.
Note, the above text looks like C code, but I seem to run into things
like this is various languages, not just C, so I'm looking for a
general solution.
next reply other threads:[~2005-01-20 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-20 15:46 Roy Smith [this message]
2005-01-20 20:16 ` Aligning colums Stefan Reichör
2005-01-23 4:05 ` Alan Wehmann
2005-01-24 23:57 ` Peter Heslin
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