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Re: List into Columns


From: Brendan Halpin
Subject: Re: List into Columns
Date: 23 Jun 2004 17:22:47 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3

googleartist@yahoo.com (Artist) writes:

> How I can convert a list into columns , in the similar way `ls` does on unix.

Does this give you a clue?:

(setq mylist '("one" "two" "three and a half"))
(dolist (element mylist) 
        (insert (format "%s\n" element)))

If not, explain a bit more.

Brendan
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