From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enclosing text in a box
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:55:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt8q62mu.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8335aifz4c.fsf@gnu.org
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 |
;; +---------------------+
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/string.el
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-16 20:55 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 [this message]
2022-11-18 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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