From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jordan Wilson via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Text placed within a specific length width Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:53:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87v81qwn94.fsf@gmx.com> References: Reply-To: Jordan Wilson Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29393"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:mo/yVPqrVzdB1ShpYZOlxjQytDc= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 30 15:53:59 2024 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 1sNv0B-0007OA-F7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:53:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sNuzi-0002tx-A9; Sun, 30 Jun 2024 09:53:30 -0400 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 1sNuzf-0002th-Ab for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2024 09:53:27 -0400 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 1sNuzc-0003Im-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2024 09:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sNuzW-0006Zk-Ja for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:53:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147029 Archived-At: On 2024-06-30 (Sun) at 12:11 (+0000), Heime 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