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RE: shortcut for align-regexp
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Doug Lewan |
Subject: |
RE: shortcut for align-regexp |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:20:02 +0000 |
The command align-regexp is written to prompt you for a regular expression if
you use it interactively.
The following code does what you describe you want.
(defun my-common-align (begin end)
"Align text in the region on '=' and '<-'."
(interactive "r")
(let ((common-align-regexp "\\(?:=\\|<-\\)"))
(align-regexp begin end common-align-regexp)))
(global-set-key "\C-a" 'my-common-align)
The choice of key is yours, but `C-a' is move-beginning-of-line almost
everywhere. I might recommend `C-c a' instead.
,Douglas
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From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
[mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of
Jannis
Sent: Wednesday, 2013 April 17 08:35
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: shortcut for align-regexp
Hi emacs users,
this most probably is a beginners question ... googeling however yielded
now exlanation suitable for my emacs experience.
I would love to bind single key combination (like C-a) to the
align-regexp command and use = and <- as alignment regexpressions. How
would I do this?
Without this I always have to type:
M-align-regexp RET <- RET
Thanks a lot
Jannis