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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:40:55AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.

For what I would need, it sounds workable (by providing a way to
filter the current buffer so that the raggediness goes away).
I use cindent, tidy, etc., for formatting most of the text that
I'm editing.

On the other hand, though there's fmt and par available, I generally
don't use them for updating a buffer.
 
> > 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.

sounds good (then you may be able to answer my implied question:  does it
maintain the table's cells by preventing you from overwriting the cell
borders?)

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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