Re: Elisp Reference Manual on inserting tables

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Sunday, November 6th, 2022 at 8:48 PM, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:


> Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com writes:
> 
> > As I was talking about making tables from elisp, I though there should
> > be something in the Elisp Manual as well. Or perhaps in the Elisp
> > Tutorial?
> 
> 
> Emacs doesn't have a simple function to format simple text tables
> built-in (so there is nothing to document). I wrote my own one some
> time ago, maybe it is of help:

I have the following function that makes a list of lists, with one list
constituting a row.

(defun pmchart (descr rekr)
  "Makes a tabel structure."
  (mapcar
   (lambda (n)
     (append (make-list n "xxxxx")
             (make-list (- 3 n) "")))
   rekr))

The call

(pmchart '("A" "B" "C" "D" "E") [3 2 2 1 0])

produces

'(("xxxxx" "xxxxx" "xxxxx")
  ("xxxxx" "xxxxx" "")
  ("xxxxx" "xxxxx" "")
  ("xxxxx" "" "")
  ("" "" "")))

I would like to adapt it to produce 

'(("A" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "xxxxx")
  ("B" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "")
  ("C" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "")
  ("D" "xxxxx" "" "")
  ("E" "" "" "")))