Re: [vile] Are there any table editing add-ons/macros/whatever for vile?

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:47:10AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:25:28PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:21:34PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > Reading the descriptions of these, I see they're similar-but-different.  
> > > If I
> > > were editing something like those, my first inclination would be to look 
> > > for
> > > (or make) a simple nroff-style formatter that I could use vile to display 
> > > the
> > > target markup as it is shown in their respective manuals.
> > 
> > for instance
> >     http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html
> > 
> That would allow me to move from one format of table markup to another
> but doesn't address the fundamental problem of how to edit a table
> easily to start with.
> 
> What I really, really want is something like the table editing mode in
> Word/Open Office/LibreOffice as a standalone program.  The Emacs table
> editor is fairly close to this so I'll try it and see how I get on.
> 
Well after one minor problem (it needs a patch to work!) I have the
Emacs table mode working, it's pretty good and adds a menu for the table
mode so I don't have to remember arcane key sequences!  It could well be
that it's all I need as I don't *really* need tables embedded in other
text so I can just use Emacs for editing my tables and nothing else.

-- 
Chris Green