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Chris Van Dusen <cavandusen@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 12, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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
>
> Does M-x ruler-mode not do what you need?

Wow, never saw that before.

Nope, I'm actually looking for something that puts the text in the
buffer.



-- 
Dan Espen