From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Automatically make a table with 16 columns Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:26:26 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8086"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) Cc: uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor To: uzibalqa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 16 09:28:51 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 1oZ5mM-0001vf-R9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:28:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33650 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZ5mL-00040V-JO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:28:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZ5l3-000405-7G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:45155) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oZ5l1-0005ZG-7z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.153]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5AC7.000000006324255A.00003976; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:27:22 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: uzibalqa , uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139509 Archived-At: * uzibalqa [2022-09-16 03:17]: > How can I automatically make a table with 16 columns in the current buffer? > The first row has numbers from 1 to 15, the second row from 16 to 31. Followed > by an additional two rows with entries that are empty. > > Would need it to like like this > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 > > 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 > > [16 empty entries] > > [16 empty entries] (table-insert COLUMNS ROWS &optional CELL-WIDTH CELL-HEIGHT) C-h f table-insert RET or user Hyperbole package to invoke following link: {C-h f table-insert RET} (progn (insert "\n") (table-insert 3 3 4 1)) +----+----+----+ | | | | +----+----+----+ | | | | +----+----+----+ | | | | +----+----+----+ Once you generate your table, populate it: +----+----+----+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | +----+----+----+ | 4 | 5 | 6 | +----+----+----+ | | | | +----+----+----+ once you have populated it, make function to insert it: (defun my-table () (interactive) (insert " +----+----+----+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | +----+----+----+ | 4 | 5 | 6 | +----+----+----+ | | | | +----+----+----+ ")) invoke the function: {M-x my-table RET} +----+----+----+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | +----+----+----+ | 4 | 5 | 6 | +----+----+----+ | | | | +----+----+----+ -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/