From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Lewis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:18:00 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <8765tp4p4m.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040350852 32523 80.91.224.249 (20 Dec 2002 02:20:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 02:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18PCmQ-0008SQ-00 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:20:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18PClz-0005hc-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:20:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: css.css.sfu.ca Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1040350739 25061 199.60.1.20 (20 Dec 2002 02:18:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Dec 2002 02:18:59 GMT X-Attribution: Benjamin Lewis X-Yow: OMNIVERSAL AWARENESS?? Oh, YEH!! First you need 4 GALLONS of JELL-O and a BIG WRENCH!!... I think you drop th'WRENCH in the JELL-O as if it was a FLAVOR, or an INGREDIENT... ...or...I...um... WHERE'S the WASHING MACHINES? User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5qjjzKkgAP43B1bqhL5dUOC6p2g= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108319 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4848 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4848 On 20 Dec 2002, Miles Bader wrote: > John Wiegley writes: >>> max 4096 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 6291.456 cs 70 >>> ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 max 8192 cs 70 ap_mp 9 t 55% np 63 ap 63 >> >>> Anyone have a good recipe for this? >> >> Without a delimiter, there is no way for align.el to figure this >> out. It is only regexp based, not a true parser. > > In this case, the delimiter would appear to be whitespace (e.g. [ \t]+); > does align.el not support that well? In this case, it appears that not all the spaces are to be considered as delimiters. You have to say something like "treat every other space as a delimiter". -- Benjamin Lewis Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly