Re: Need to know how to goto-column

[Michael Heerdegen]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> (my-print-table-to-string '(("OK" "More")
>                           ("One" "Two")) nil '(10 50))
>
> I have expected that above will give some aligned columns. Maybe you
> have example how to use it?

I made it so that the last argument is expected to be a list of symbols
left, right, centered (not numbers as you tried) - like in the example I
had given:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(my-print-table-to-string
  '((1 "xx") (20 "yyy"))
  `(,#'number-to-string ,#'identity) ; how cols are formatted
  '(left right))                    ; col alignments
#+end_src

Columns are always made as narrow as possible with the given strings.
One could use the COL-FORMATTERS argument to add padding to a certain
column (I guess I would use `format' for that).

Does that answer your question?  Would you prefer different semantics?


Regards,

Michael.