From: Jordan Wilson via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Text placed within a specific length width
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:53:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v81qwn94.fsf@gmx.com> (raw)
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On 2024-06-30 (Sun) at 12:11 (+0000), Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to have an elisp function that inserts text inside a a string
> of a specific size to avoid having to introduce leading or trailing spaces.
> Thus something like this for text of width 15
> (insert-w "Line Wrap" 15)
> (insert-w "Karl Koch" 15)
> (insert-w "Microsk Spez" 15)
`string-pad' pads a string to particular length:
(string-pad "Karl Koch" 15)
returns
"Karl Koch "
See describe-function for details
Thanks,
Jordan Wilson
Sent from Gnus v5.13, GNU Emacs 29.4 on GNU/LINUX
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2024-06-30 12:11 Text placed within a specific length width Heime
2024-06-30 13:53 ` Jordan Wilson via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2024-06-30 14:12 ` Heime
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