From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hline
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:23:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6tksrdj.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg7ds1wp.fsf@zoho.eu>
On 2021-01-07, at 07:21, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> (defun hline (&optional char)
> (interactive "P")
> (let ((len (- (window-width) (current-column) 1))
> (c (or char ?-)) )
> (insert (make-string len c)) ))
Funny how I wrote an almost identical function just two days ago...
Though I used (1- (window-width)), since in my use case I knew that
(current-column) would be zero.
Anybody knows why it is necessary to subtract 1?
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-07 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-07 6:21 hline Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-07 9:49 ` hline Jean Louis
2021-01-07 10:05 ` hline Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-07 14:51 ` hline Tim Visher
2021-01-08 1:00 ` hline Jean Louis
2021-01-07 15:23 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2021-01-07 22:44 ` hline Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-07 22:57 ` hline Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-07 23:08 ` hline Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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