Re: hline

[Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 4:53 AM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

> * Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <
> help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-01-07 09:24]:
> > (defun hline (&optional char)
> >   (interactive "P")
> >   (let ((len (- (window-width) (current-column) 1))
> >         (c (or char ?-)) )
> >     (insert (make-string len c)) ))
>
> I can undertand and find it useful. But you should maybe think of
> auto-fill-mode and fill-column, is it?
>
> If fill-column is 70, should line really go over all the visible
> window screen? As text does not.
>

I've done something similar to this that respected fill-column. I use it
quite a bit when writing software.

```
(defun header-comment (comment)
  "Insert a header COMMENT

A header comment is a line of comment characters fill-column
long, a line of 3 comment characters followed by a space then
COMMENT, and a line of comment characters fill-column long
again."
  (interactive "sComment: ")
  (let* ((comment-char (string-to-char comment-start))
         (wrapper (make-string fill-column comment-char))
         (comment-line (format "%s %s"
                               (make-string 3 comment-char)
                               comment)))
    (insert wrapper "\n" comment-line "\n" wrapper)))
```