Re: Aligning colums

[Alan Wehmann]

Look for pretty-column.el.  It will do what you want and is easy to
use.  I think I got it from gnu.emacs.sources, so chances are you can
find it in the Google group collection of postings.

roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) writes:

> I've got a bunch of text that looks like this:
>
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxx", 2)
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxx", 2)
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxxxxxx", 2)
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxxxx", 2)
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxx", 1, "xxxxxxx", 2)
>
> I want to get the arguments lined up so it looks like:
>
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx",  1, "xxxx",       2)
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxx",       1, "xxx",        2)
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxxx",     1, "xxxxxxxx",   2)
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxx",        1, "xxxxxx",     2)
>        foo ("arg1", "xxxxxxxxxx",      1, "xxxxxxx",    2)
>
> What's the best way to do that?  I suspect M-X align is what I want, I
> can't make heads or tails out of the on-line help.
>
> Note, the above text looks like C code, but I seem to run into things
> like this is various languages, not just C, so I'm looking for a
> general solution.
>
>
>

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