From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ASCII Tables with row and colspans Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 05:21:56 +0200 Message-ID: <877cnjpa97.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <878r863f3p.fsf@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38622"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:4/gZXtxd/2uqoXj2VHjBq3vfYEE= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 19 06:22:01 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qtKXo-0009hl-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2023 06:22:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qtKWy-0005MM-BT; Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qtJbt-00038M-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qtJbr-0002AZ-Gi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qtJbn-00078W-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2023 05:22:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:21:06 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:311571 Archived-At: Ag Ibragimov wrote: > I think you missed the point that I'm trying to do this in > Elisp. This is for a small package I'm writing. I couldn't > find a function anywhere that prints an ASCII table with > spans. I thought it would be trivial to write one, turned > out to be a bit trickier than I expected. I'm surprised that > something like this doesn't exist already. I'm still hoping > someone already solved that. In the package manager, for GNU ELPA, NonGNU ELPA, and MELPA, there are 84 hits for "table" and 16 hits for "ascii", there is even a package called ascii-table, https://github.com/lassik/emacs-ascii-table Maybe that is what you look for? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal