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Re: two column mode ?
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
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Re: two column mode ? |
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Sat, 2 May 2020 11:18:28 +0900 |
Thank you Emanuel.
> On May 2, 2020, at 9:47, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text
> editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
Ok, I see. The purpose was originally to create a structure for aligned
bilingual texts originally. Fascinating.
As suggests Eli, I must have been missing the text separator to see anything
valuable.
Thank you both for the help.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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