Re: newbie elisp help ??

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> writes:

> I suppose I am asking for the programming equivalent of 'C-u n'.

Well yeah: my question is "why do you want to program this?"  Whenever
I want such a divider, I just enter "M-7 M-0 *", like this:

**********************************************************************

That took three keystrokes.  If you want to repeat it a bunch of
times, you can make it a macro, and name the macro.  However, either
making it a macro and calling it by name, or programming it as an
interactive function takes more keystrokes (unless you give it a
one-letter name or bind it to a key, e.g., C-c *).

If you want to call this from inside a function, or make it part of a
mode, I'd suggest looking at the code for major modes, such as sh-mode
or message-mode.

Joel

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