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diff etc/NEWS @ 25949:f52051afc40a
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author | Phillip Rulon <pjr@gnu.org> |
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date | Sat, 09 Oct 1999 01:22:21 +0000 |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Sat Oct 09 01:19:36 1999 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Sat Oct 09 01:22:21 1999 +0000 @@ -8,6 +8,55 @@ * Changes in Emacs 21.1 +* New packages + +** delim-col + +Helps to prettify columns in a text region or rectangle. + +Here is an example of columns: + +horse apple bus +dog pineapple car EXTRA +porcupine strawberry airplane + +Doing the following settings: + + (setq delimit-columns-str-before "[ ") + (setq delimit-columns-str-after " ]") + (setq delimit-columns-str-separator ", ") + (setq delimit-columns-separator "\t") + + +Selecting the lines above and typing: + + M-x delimit-columns-region + +It results: + +[ horse , apple , bus , ] +[ dog , pineapple , car , EXTRA ] +[ porcupine, strawberry, airplane, ] + +delim-col has the following options: + + delimit-columns-str-before Specify a string to be inserted + before all columns. + + delimit-columns-str-separator Specify a string to be inserted + between each column. + + delimit-columns-str-after Specify a string to be inserted + after all columns. + + delimit-columns-separator Specify a regexp which separates + each column. + +delim-col has the following commands: + + delimit-columns-region Prettify all columns in a text region. + delimit-columns-rectangle Prettify all columns in a text rectangle. + ** Faces and frame parameters. There are four new faces `scroll-bar', `border', `cursor' and `mouse'.