From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: same data appears twice, interactive then function body Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:19:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87k0ti8gzy.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87y2hya6i1.fsf@zoho.eu> <87tusm9z4z.fsf@zoho.eu> <87wnxi8j6h.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8735"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ed512RG6+n3KCDDKSMVYJxFxT2M= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 06:21:15 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1kpPFT-0002B2-PS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:21:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33116 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpPFS-0007OK-OC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41380) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpPEC-00070s-Pg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:19:56 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:60312) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpPE9-0007LS-HT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:19:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kpPE7-0000bq-JA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:19:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126406 Archived-At: Yuri Khan wrote: >> Oh, so there is a `window-text-width'! > > Depending on what you are trying to achieve, ‘fill-column’ > might fit better. It works great! I realized you don't even need `window-text-width' twice! [improved code last] I use this with files like this: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/FILM (defun insert-string-centered (string &optional width) (interactive (list (read-from-minibuffer "string: ") (string-to-number (read-from-minibuffer "width [window]: " )))) (let*((max (if (< 0 width) width (window-text-width))) (str-len (length string)) (padding (- (/ (- max str-len) 2) (if (= 0 (mod str-len 2)) 1 0)) ) (padding-str (make-string padding ?\s)) ) (insert padding-str string) )) (defalias 'isc #'insert-string-centered) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal