From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Enclosing text in a box Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:55:05 +0100 Message-ID: <87mt8q62mu.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <_AODCZ2cNjiSAkIvdrGzDgeSNSWqJoJ9xfXn-zFenyY-yTUYx-Ijx0k4-Lq46rN4CjdkyIrzIBD1h4YY23BAP089R0Tg0kzM9MOUnaEOFrs=@protonmail.com> <835yffgfwp.fsf@gnu.org> <83y1sbez2r.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfiig87w.fsf@gnu.org> <83k03ug0zr.fsf@gnu.org> <8335aifz4c.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37973"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kwmct54myBdCxShENHVGXwX4H+c= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 18 14:50:17 2022 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 1ow1l2-0009hA-N0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:50:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ow1kl-0002Pr-OV; Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:49:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovPRH-0007xf-E4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:55:20 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovPRF-0007Q5-OV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ovPRD-000ASf-7E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:55:15 +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: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:49:58 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141038 Archived-At: 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 -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal