At 14:04 -0700 19/08/2011, Watts Martin wrote:
...or what he needs to do is to set space-filled columnar data in
the way of an old punch card, i.e.:
[-field-][---------field---------][---field---]
text more text starting here other text
foobar walla walla bing bang 23skidoo
...which BBEdit could do, just not as conveniently as Emacs. Which
is not an oft-used phrase. :) (Although it would probably be fairly
easy to write a text filter to transform delimited text to that
after the fact.)
It would also be possible to do it as you went along, just as you
would in Excel when you double-click on the column divider. You'd
need to replace the tabs with spaces and an invisible character to
make the process reversible. I'd write a Perl filter now but I have
a lot more important things to do at the moment.
JD
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