916 Days of Emacs

Re:916 Days of Emacs by umanwizard on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:26PM (#35558969)

Yep. Just wrote this today to prettify all the tables in a Markdown file:

    (while (not (eobp))
      (while (not (markdown-table-at-point-p))
        (forward-char 1))
      (markdown-table-align)
      (goto-char (markdown-table-end)))

I'd have no idea how to do this in vim!

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Re:916 Days of Emacs by ParetoOptimal on Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:45PM (#35562515)

A macro and a plugin installed with the markdown-table-align equivalent? Though you could also use this approach with emacs macros too.

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Re:916 Days of Emacs by umanwizard on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:43PM (#35564547)

In vim I wouldn’t know where to find that markdown-table-align exists nor how to write a macro (and I used vim for much longer than emacs). In emacs I just had to notice that pressing tab in markdown mode aligned tables (among other things), then press C-h k <TAB> to see what function that key invokes, jump to the code for it and start reading.

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