From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newbie elisp help ?? Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:24:47 +0200 Message-ID: <46C344EF.6000901@gmail.com> References: <1187198873.2712.158.camel@CASE> <46C33C86.7010104@gmail.com> <1187201816.2712.177.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187202314 26563 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2007 18:25:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:25:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: EMACS List To: William Case Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 20:25:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ILNYM-0000DI-9R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:25:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILNYL-0002i5-Hd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILNY4-0002hq-Jh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILNY2-0002he-8J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:24:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILNY2-0002hb-2g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ILNY1-0005Pn-Mb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:24:49 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:60363 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1ILNY0-0008B4-3I; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:24:48 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <1187201816.2712.177.camel@CASE> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000765-2, 2007-08-15), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1ILNY0-0008B4-3I. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1ILNY0-0008B4-3I 97d4cb5006f5e91f3566c0f56e8ddee5 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46577 Archived-At: William Case wrote: >> Try this: >> >> M-: (insert (make-string 50 ?*)) > > Unfortunately, (make-string 50 ?*) is the single character '*', I was > shooting for something that was a repetition of two characters (*SPC) so > that my section divider looked like: > > /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ > > I would begin and end the function with (insert 47). > > I tried (insert (make-string 5 "* ")) and variations thereof, i.e. with > and without quotes and ASCII numbers. Can this help: (while (< (current-column) 50) (insert "* "))