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Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> wrote on Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:33:24
-0600:
> What to do to get this to look like this:

> W
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> I don't mean just the search-and-replace solution: I am thinking that
> the buffer should have the same content as it does normally, just shown
> in this weird display mode.  I'd also like to be able to do a
> word-based version of the same thing:

If it's not too intrusive a question, why?  I mean, is it to satisfy an
"Emacs can do anything" challenge, or do you want to have 40 windows side
by side in a frame, or what?

Just wondering.  :-)

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
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