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: Commands to insert a heading and a new page Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:12:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87plvfxd6l.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <4WUuQL20YTsYDAkZrAEn-bQhNMGdVJVvGstbcI3F-ubHqcgctXVdEryoO7rgjvU51mk_uwxQYtCjS89ffdnVD6-dQd8wvE7kem231VD-a6s=@protonmail.com> <87le63fg07.fsf@gmail.com> 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="37519"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:RkOANW2li8vn/IwEQ34pmbrtLY0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 31 12:53:28 2024 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 1rqsoa-0009bn-NF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:53:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rqsnr-00052R-Ca; Sun, 31 Mar 2024 06:52:43 -0400 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 1rpgBb-0002cN-La for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:12:15 -0400 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 1rpgBZ-0008H9-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rpgBV-000AZq-KZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:12:09 +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: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 06:52:41 -0400 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:146200 Archived-At: tpeplt wrote: > A simple function to insert a form-feed character: > > (defun new-page () > "Insert a page separator into the current buffer." > (interactive) > (newline) > (insert ?\f) ;Form feed is \f or Ctrl-l or ASCII 012 > (newline)) It is not used so often, why and when do you use it? > ‘insert’ accepts either characters or strings, so it could > be used to define a command that inserts whatever text you > want in a heading. > > (newline) > (insert "Header line 1\n") > (insert "Line 2\n") > (insert (format "Parameter is %s.\n" parm)) Here is a bunch of Elisp that maybe amuses you: ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; ;; this file: ;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/string.el (defun sign (label &optional no-insert) (interactive "sLabel: \nP") (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)) ) (if no-insert sgn (insert sgn) ))) ;; +---------------------+ ;; | This is not a bluff | ;; +---------------------+ (defun hline (&optional char) (interactive "P") (let ((len (- (window-width) (or (current-column) 0) 1)) (c (or (and (listp char) (car char)) (and (numberp char) char) ?-) )) (insert (make-string len c)) )) (defalias 'hl #'hline) (when nil (hline)---------------------------------------------------------------------- (hline 42)******************************************************************* (hline ?+)+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ M-x hline RET---------------------------------------------------------------- C-u C-u C-u M-x hline RET@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ C-u 59 M-x hline RET;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ) (defun string-data-p (str) (and (stringp str) (not (string= str "")) str) ) (defun region-to-string () (when (use-region-p) (let ((beg (region-beginning)) (end (region-end) )) (let ((str (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end))) (replace-regexp-in-string "\n" " " str) )))) (provide 'string) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal