* 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,
> > preferably in emacs.
>
> Type this:
> ...
I've never used this before but I want to start. I wrote a wrapper so
that I only need to compose the table's contents, not the additional
markup.
### save to mutt-table script
#!/bin/sh
# "table wider than line width" is an error that tbl may produce when
# no terminal is present.
(
echo '.TS'
echo 'box tab(|);'
read line
# produce a column format based on columns in line 1
echo "$line" | sed -e 's,[^|]*,l,' -e 's,[^|]*,c,g' -e 's,$,.,'
echo "$line"
cat -
echo '.TE'
) |
tbl |
nroff -Tascii 2>&1 |
grep -v 'table wider than line width' |
uniq
### add to .exrc
map T {
!}mutt-table
### type into vi
Year|Hurricane|Deaths|Location
1780|Great Hurricane of 1780|27,500+|Antilles
1998|Hurricane Mitch|18,974 - 21,000|Honduras
1900|cane|8,000 - 12,000|Cuba, Texas
1974|Hurricane Fifi|8,000 - 10,000|Honduras, Belize
1930|bcane|2,000 - 8,000|Antilles, D.R.
1963|Hurricane Flora|7,186 - 8,000|Haiti, Cuba
### press T over table to format
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