Re: problem in pasting from an X-application into emacs 21

[Ian Zimmerman]

Howard> The behavior I find is most strange.  I did a little
Howard> experiment with both emacs 19 and emacs 21 running side by
Howard> side.  The emacs 19 behaves completely as expected but the
Howard> emacs 21 exhibits the problem mentioned in my original
Howard> message.

Yes, I have seen this as well.  In Emacs 20, too.

Here's my original complaint:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2002/debian-emacsen-200208/msg00008.html

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Benjamin Rutt wrote:

> I have a buffer in text-mode that I'd like to align using align.el.
> Here are the contents:
> 
>     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?


1. Mark the region (C-x h if the text is the entire contents of the buffer,
    or the buffer has already been narrowed to the text).

2. Replace the region:

        C-u M-|
        awk '{printf("%s %-8s %s  %s %s  %s %s %s %s %s %s %s\n", C-q C-j
                     $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12)}' RET

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