Re: align.el: how to align space delimited text tables?

[Benjamin Lewis]

On 20 Dec 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> 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".  

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Colin Fallon <colinf@mac.com> writes:

> OK, I managed to track down the issue. W3 does not seem to cater for
> the Mac and I have at least partly fixed this by adding the
> following line to font-window-system-mappings in font.el
> 
> (mac      . (x-font-create-name x-font-create-object))
> 
> W3 now launches and seems to work.

Could you give a quick step-by-step reference for those of us who have
had far less success than you in making w3 work?

Something along the lines of Andrew Choi's how-to for downloading and
compiling EMACS from CVS:  

        http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/

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I'm struggling with getting Emacs to talk to our cvs server.  I
find the *CVS* buffer in my buffer list.  I go to kill this
buffer and get a pop-up from windows stating something along the
lines of "Emacs has done something really bad and it is going to
die".  I try this again and yes, the exact same crash.

Emacs 21.2, W2K Pro.  CVS server is across the network.
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What kind of windows ? it works for me here on w2k.

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"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@heintze.com> writes:

> I have a text file with the strings "begin resume" and "end resume" before
> and after my resume.
> 
> How do I copy this to the clipboard? Whenever I position my self at "begin
> resume", mark the current location with Ctrl+Space, and search for "end
> resume" I loose the beginning mark!
> 
> Surely there is a faster way that using PGDN and PGUP for this?
> 
>  Thanks
>      Siegfried
> 
> 

How do you start your search? When I do on the above text C-SPC on the
I in "I have" and then do C-s to start an incremental search and enter
"I copy" all the text from the beginning of your post to the end of
the fourth word in the second paragraph are marked by transient-mark
and can be either killed or saved. Perhaps you're only using the wrong
method to search?

HTH

Bernd
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>>>>> On Thu Dec 19, Miles writes:

> In this case, the delimiter would appear to be whitespace (e.g. [
> \t]+); does align.el not support that well?

Try passing that regexp to M-x align-regexp, see if it works...

John
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>    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

> I'd like to align the fields to the following:

>    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?

Try googling for ws-align.el by Matthias Helmling, this 
provides align-cols which does exactly what you want.

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