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From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Want to write up quick balance sheet, etc.  Via tables?
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 05:52:07 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l0jnm7$mot$1@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bo43c60f.fsf@informatimago.com

In article <87bo43c60f.fsf@informatimago.com>,
Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:
>
>> MY QUESTION:
>>
>> How to make it easy, almost foolproof, to be able to quickly format
>> the stuff I type in.
>
>
>Type stuff:
>
>cash       20,000          short term debt   89,000
>cash      20,000          short term debt   89,000
>cash       20,000         short term debt   89,000
>cash      20,000         short term debt   89,000
>cash       20,000          short term debt    89,000
>cash       20,000          short term debt     89,000
>
>Select it, type M-x align-cols RET and get:
>
>cash       20,000          short term debt     89,000
>cash       20,000          short term debt     89,000
>cash       20,000          short term debt     89,000
>cash       20,000          short term debt     89,000
>cash       20,000          short term debt     89,000
>cash       20,000          short term debt     89,000
>
>
>-- 
>__Pascal Bourguignon__
>http://www.informatimago.com/


Thank you!  Had never heard of align-cols.  Will try it!

David



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-09  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-08 21:50 Want to write up quick balance sheet, etc. Via tables? David Combs
2013-09-08 22:17 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-08 22:49   ` Suvayu Ali
2013-09-09  5:52   ` David Combs [this message]
2013-09-09  5:56   ` David Combs
2013-09-09  6:02   ` David Combs
2013-09-09  9:10     ` Óscar Fuentes
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1644.1378717842.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-01 18:54       ` David Combs
2013-10-01 20:46         ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-09-09  7:38   ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1637.1378712194.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-01 18:57     ` David Combs

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