help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: two column mode ?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: two column mode ?
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 02:47:06 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

> @Eli
>
> No, reading the manual did not help, hence my
> question, but your reply that I should read the
> manual did suggest that I had missed something
> important and I went back to the manual and it looks
> like this mode is for editing a file that has 2 (or
> more ?) columns, or to add a column to an
> existing file.
>
> I have never seen such a file in text format so the
> purpose was not obvious.
>
> [...]
>
> What are the use cases for this feature set ?

@Jean-Christophe Helary, again

  [c]heck out the file where its defined,
  two-column.el - I have it in
  /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/textmodes/two-column.el.gz

there you have both a file to look at, and an example
use case.

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
https://dataswamp.org/~incal




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]