Re: Dreaming in XEmacs

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Joe Corneli <jcorneli@mail.ma.utexas.edu> writes:

> Here are a couple of things I'd really like to see -- if they
> exist, I'd like to know about them, if not, it would be interesting
> to hear some discussion/hints about how to write the necessary code.
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> Item 1.  Real-time array neatener for XEmacs
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> I use XEmacs to write TeX code and when I encounter an array (especially a
> big one) I usually begin to feel a bit of a panic.  Wouldn't it be nice if
> XEmacs kept the &'s lined up vertically, so that this took 15 seconds or
> less to write (instead of a minute or so of tedious fiddling):
> 
> $$
> \begin{array}{ccc}
> 0          & 1     & \alpha \\
> \mathbf{F} & \beta & 1      \\
> 0          & 1     & \gamma \\
> \end{array}
> $$

M-x align-current RET from align.el (part of GNU Emacs, maybe
somebody has already ported it).


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