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: rcd-box.el for box drawings and tables Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 05:28:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87r0ycrbth.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87r0yi4qly.fsf@disroot.org> <4c6396a5-24c8-37c3-ef9e-768dc99c38e8@panix.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="16045"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:6e+AUIVLG8SiyHClGH32jDypa/Y= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 13:14:15 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 1osjyB-0003zL-4q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:14:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1osjy5-00079X-Pe; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:14:10 -0500 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 1oschZ-0007Yy-16 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:28:37 -0500 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 1oschX-0000RW-Ej for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oschV-0001i0-QJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 05:28:33 +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: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:14:08 -0500 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:140865 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > Those characters are like this one ┓ and they are called box > drawing characters. That one, ┓, is called "box drawings heavy down and left", old name "forms heavy down and left". ;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; ;; this file: ;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/char.el (defun what-char (&optional pos) (interactive "P") (let*((position (or (and (numberp pos) pos) (point) )) (kill pos) (char (char-after position)) ) (when char (let*((name (get-char-code-property char 'name)) (old-name (get-char-code-property char 'old-name)) (msg (if (and name old-name) (format "%s (old: %s)" name old-name) (or name old-name) )) (msg-dc (when (stringp msg) (downcase msg) ))) (when msg-dc (prog1 msg-dc (when kill (kill-new msg-dc) ) (message "%s (at point: %d)" msg-dc position) )))))) ;; (what-char) ; "space" ;; (what-char 754) ; "right parenthesis (old: closing parenthesis)" ;; C-u 754 M-x what-char RET ; same, but also killed ;; C-u M-x what-char RET* (C-y) ; asterisk is yanked ;; M-x what-char RET ; line feed (lf) (at point: 1034) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal