Re: Fancier align-regexp?

[Scott Frazer]

jrwats wrote:
> Input:
> Lorem ipsum dolor: sit amet
> consectetur: adipiscing elit. Etiam
> sed purus: Vestibulum
> ante: ipsum
> primis in: faucibus
>
> You'll have to paste the following into emacs I'm afraid (or set your
> browser to monospace font?) to get this to look 1/2 decent.
>
> I want (the colons aligned with the words preceding them "following"
> the colon to the aligned point)
>  Internet IP Address:   67.170.74.92
>          Subnet Mask:   255.255.252.0
>      Default Gateway:   67.170.72.1
>                 DNS1:   68.87.69.146
>                 DNS2:   68.87.85.98
>                 DNS3:   68.87.78.130
>
>
> calling align-regexp on ":" doesn't work obviously and puts the spaces
> between the words preceding the colon:
> rem ipsum dolor : sit amet
> consectetur       : adipiscing elit. Etiam
> sed purus         : Vestibulum
> ante              : ipsum
> primis in         : faucibus
>
> I know align-regexp has a fancier method to use with a prefix arg, but
> I'm not smart enough for it.  Is it possible to accomplish this with
> align-regexp?  A macro?

C-u M-x align-regexp \(\s-*.+\): -1 1 n