From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:45:26 +0530 Message-ID: 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 1506435388 30991 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 14:16:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:16:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130015 (Ma Gnus v0.15) Emacs/25.3 (windows-nt) 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 16:16:23 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 1dwqep-0007Ub-Rx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:16:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwqev-0008UZ-LM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:16:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59393) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwqeQ-0008UK-EU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwqeN-0002U5-5R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54733 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwqeM-0002Tt-U1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:15:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwqe8-00056Y-I6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:15:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com Cancel-Lock: sha1:O+eUgLj6LUQFgLi7keAtSlUkpzo= 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:114419 Archived-At: 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 sivaram --