From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newbie elisp help ?? Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:08:29 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87k5rwimrm.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187210442 22587 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2007 20:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 22:40:39 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 1ILPfQ-0003e7-VP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILPfQ-0006uI-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:40:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1187208561 1027 132.183.29.121 (15 Aug 2007 20:09:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:09:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h8BaTX8SYu0yJn6XSMxipU5xXH0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151011 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:46584 Archived-At: William Case 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 -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 "It can be interesting to study ancient philosophy, but more as a kind of accident report than to teach you anything useful." --Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/raq.html