Re: Need to know how to goto-column

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Dec 03 2020, Jean Louis wrote:
> * tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> [2020-12-03 14:46]:
>> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 02:20:31PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
>> > I would like to use function goto-column but it is not there.
>> > 
>> > Somebody knows how can I move cursor to specific column?
>> 
>>   move-to-column
>
> That works, especiall with
>
> (move-to-column column t) to go to column even if there are no spaces.
>
> I am trying to construct ordered display of various items. Maybe I
> should use skeleton for that. I have 2 columns and in first one
> sometimes, sometimes not, appear various properties, in second one
> sometimes, sometimes not appear various properties. But in any case I
> want them aligned.
>
> If anybody knows what is usually used in Emacs to align text, may let me know.

There is `tabulated-list-mode`, which may be of use. There is also the function
`truncate-string-to-width`, in case `tabulated-list-mode` is too high-level for
your purpose.

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