From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs scale generator?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:07:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mdt9mu$20d$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1916.1426192439.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
> Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
>
>> Okay, I've needed this more than a few times and Google isn't helping.
>> I write and design a lot of fixed format data and I need
>> layout scales like this:
>>
>> 1...5...10...15...20...
>>
>> Anyone out there ever write anything like this?
>> Ideally I'd like to be able to do something like:
>>
>> Esc 80 M-x scale
>>
>> and get an 80 character long scale.
>> Up into the 100s for extra points:
>>
>> 95..100..105
>
>
> Look at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/popup-ruler.el
Yep comes close.
Of course, I want the ruler to stay around, I can probably figure that
out.
--
Dan Espen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-13 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-12 20:23 Emacs scale generator? Dan Espen
2015-03-12 20:33 ` J. David Boyd
[not found] ` <mailman.1916.1426192439.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-03-13 0:07 ` Dan Espen [this message]
2015-03-13 0:07 ` Chris Van Dusen
[not found] ` <mailman.1923.1426205290.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-03-13 0:17 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-13 0:38 ` Joost Kremers
2015-03-13 0:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-13 1:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-13 2:30 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-13 2:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-13 2:48 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-13 2:16 ` Dan Espen
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