From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enclosing text in a box
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:48:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y1s89v3h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mt8q62mu.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:55:05 +0100)
> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:55:05 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> Asking users to handle such conditions would be too hard to
> >> do repeatedly.
> >
> > This is not userland, this is Emacs Lisp programming for
> > display, and yes, it is quite tricky
>
> (defun sign (label)
> (interactive "sLabel: ")
> (let*((vertical "|")
> (horizontal ?-)
> (corner "+")
> (mid (format "%s %s %s" vertical label vertical))
> (len (length mid))
> (top (format "%s%s%s" corner (make-string (- len 2) horizontal) corner))
> (sgn (format "%s\n%s\n%s\n" top mid top)) )
> (insert sgn) ))
>
> ;; M-x sign This is not a bluff RET
> ;;
> ;; +---------------------+
> ;; | This is not a bluff |
> ;; +---------------------+
And now try with "fullwidth" characters, like the below:
M-x sign RET This is not a bluff RET
This yields:
+---------------------+
| This is not a bluff |
+---------------------+
Hmm...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-18 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-16 12:47 Enclosing text in a box Heime
2022-11-16 13:07 ` Heime
2022-11-16 13:34 ` Alexis Roda
2022-11-16 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 14:11 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 14:20 ` Heime
2022-11-16 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 14:51 ` Heime
2022-11-16 14:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 20:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 16:48 ` Heime
2022-11-16 16:53 ` Heime
2022-11-16 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 19:35 ` Heime
2022-11-16 19:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 21:01 ` Heime
2022-11-16 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 20:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-11-18 15:10 ` tomas
2022-11-18 19:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 21:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 14:55 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 15:06 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 16:12 ` tomas
2022-11-16 16:43 ` Heime
2022-11-17 6:43 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-17 6:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 19:11 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-21 12:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 16:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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