Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-23 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Christoph! On Mi, 21 Nov 2012, Christoph Möbius wrote: Also sprach Bernard Massot am Mi, 21 Nov 2012 um 00:18:09 +0100: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:37:11PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: Note the corners: periods on top, and ` ' on the bottom. IMHO, this looks better. But that IS just my

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-21 Thread Jim Graham
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 07:03:07AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I, like David do prefer vi over vim not that it's especially relevent, so this is great. Being set-up immediately here :-) thanks guys I'm going to post this one (two-part) comment on preferred editors.. The right/best

Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Davis
I'm using mutt on OS X, with emacs as my editor. It's a great combination, but there are times when I really *REALLY* want to put a table in a message. I tried creating an HTML attachment containing the table, but HTML-capable mail readers just display this as an attachment that has to be opened

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:32:16AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: I'm using mutt on OS X, with emacs as my editor. It's a great combination, but there are times when I really *REALLY* want to put a table in a message. I tried creating an HTML attachment containing the table, but HTML-capable mail

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Luis Mochan
Emacs' org-mode permits editing of text tables. There is an orgtbl minor mode to edit tables outside of an .org file. Regards, Luis On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:59:57AM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:32:16AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: I'm using mutt on OS X, with emacs

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Davis
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:11:27AM -0600, Luis Mochan wrote: Emacs' org-mode permits editing of text tables. There is an orgtbl minor mode to edit tables outside of an .org file. I was not aware of that. That sounds like a great solution. I'll investigate. Thanks! -pd

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:32:16AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: I'm using mutt on OS X, with emacs as my editor. It's a great Is there any reasonly easy (non-painful) way to put a table in a message? A plain text table would be fine if I could limit it to 72 characters wide or so, and if there

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread David Champion
* On 20 Nov 2012, Peter Davis wrote: Is there any reasonly easy (non-painful) way to put a table in a message? A plain text table would be fine if I could limit it to 72 characters wide or so, and if there were a reasonable way to edit it, preferably in emacs. Type this: .TS box tab(|);

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread David Champion
* On 20 Nov 2012, David Champion wrote: * On 20 Nov 2012, Peter Davis wrote: Is there any reasonly easy (non-painful) way to put a table in a message? A plain text table would be fine if I could limit it to 72 characters wide or so, and if there were a reasonable way to edit it,

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ David Champion wrote on Tue 20.Nov'12 at 14:13:29 -0600 / * On 20 Nov 2012, Peter Davis wrote: Is there any reasonly easy (non-painful) way to put a table in a message? A plain text table would be fine if I could limit it to 72 characters wide or so, and if there were a reasonable way

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Jim Graham
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Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Bernard Massot
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:37:11PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: Note the corners: periods on top, and ` ' on the bottom. IMHO, this looks better. But that IS just my opinion. :-) And just on a style note, I would also condense it to something like this (avoiding redundancy):

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Christoph Möbius
Also sprach Bernard Massot am Mi, 21 Nov 2012 um 00:18:09 +0100: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:37:11PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: Note the corners: periods on top, and ` ' on the bottom. IMHO, this looks better. But that IS just my opinion. :-) And just on a style note, I would also

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread David Champion
* On 20 Nov 2012, Christoph Möbius wrote: This looks all great. Is there a script/plugin for doing this with vim? The script and .exrc macro I send previously should work with vim, vi, nvi, etc. Note that the .exrc macro contains embedded carriage returns. The technique should work for

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:34:59PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 20 Nov 2012, David Champion wrote: * On 20 Nov 2012, Peter Davis wrote: Is there any reasonly easy (non-painful) way to put a table in a message? A plain text table would be fine if I could limit it to 72 characters

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread David Champion
* On 20 Nov 2012, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: map T { !}mutt-table ... ### press T over table to format This looks great, but I am unclear what one does precisely. I created the script, and added the stuff to .exrc (actually created that file, as I use .vimrc). Then I added the text for

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:16:40PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 20 Nov 2012, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: map T { !}mutt-table ... ### press T over table to format This looks great, but I am unclear what one does precisely. I created the script, and added the stuff to .exrc

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread David Champion
* On 20 Nov 2012, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: OK, I have done that. I also changed nroff to groff as I have both and they are different sizes. However, I still do not really understand by press T over table to format. I type the table, hit esc and then shift-T. Nothing happens. What am I

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ Bernard Massot wrote on Wed 21.Nov'12 at 0:18:09 +0100 / On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:37:11PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: Note the corners: periods on top, and ` ' on the bottom. IMHO, this looks better. But that IS just my opinion. :-) And just on a style note, I would also condense

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Wed, November 21, 2012 07:39, David Champion wrote: * On 20 Nov 2012, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: OK, I have done that. I also changed nroff to groff as I have both and they are different sizes. However, I still do not really understand by press T over table to format. I type the table, hit

Re: Putting table in email?

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-11-21, David Champion wrote: * On 20 Nov 2012, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: OK, I have done that. I also changed nroff to groff as I have both and they are different sizes. However, I still do not really understand by press T over table to format. I type the table, hit esc and then