Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [PATCH] New function to align tables

[Damien Cassou]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Andrus <address@hidden> wrote:
> How does this differ from running `fill-paragraph' in the tabular
> environment?  It should be set up by `LaTeX-indent-environment-list' to run
> `align' (unless I set that up in my .emacs, but I don't think so).

In my configuration, fill-paragraph doesn't do anything to my tables.
I don't even have this `LaTeX-indent-environment-list' variable. Could
you please check?

In the meantime, I updated my function so that it removes useless
spaces and aligns '\\' too:

(defun LaTeX-align-table ()
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (LaTeX-mark-environment)
    (while (re-search-forward "& *" (region-end) t)
      (replace-match "& " nil nil))
    (LaTeX-mark-environment)
    (align-regexp (region-beginning) (region-end)
"\\(\\s-*\\)\\(&\\|\\\\\\\\\\)" 1 1 t)))

if you have a function that automatically makes a tabular environment
clean by aligning all '&' and '\\' vertically then my function is
useless. But I haven't found any yet.

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