2-Column Tutorial

What is a column?

Why do we use columns

The F2 key in Emacs

Creating frames

Splits same frame into two Windows

F2 2 – Create a column buffer from another buffer, and with a similar name (2C-two-columns)

F2 b – Create 2 columns and choose your second buffer (2C-associate-buffer)

F2 s – Create 2 columns of the same buffer (2C-split)

Separators whitespace, comma etc..

Use "align" command M-x align-regex =,.*

The command F2 RET inserts a newline in each of the two buffers at corresponding positions

(2C-merge) Merges the double column back into a single column

Enhancements

=golden-ratio package

Related concepts

rectangles

Sources