From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Passing character ch to make-string Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 21:25:21 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21194"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ (1036f0e) (2020-10-18) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: jai-bholeki Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 01 19:25:54 2020 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 1kZI38-0005Qn-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:25:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56860 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kZI37-0007kl-32 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2020 13:25:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kZI2h-0007jU-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2020 13:25:27 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:38441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kZI2g-0002d1-8T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2020 13:25:27 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.60]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002A0B42.000000005F9EFD93.00000EEA; Sun, 01 Nov 2020 18:25:23 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/01 10:30:20 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: 16 X-Spam_score: 1.6 X-Spam_bar: + X-Spam_report: (1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, PDS_TONAME_EQ_TOLOCAL_SHORT=1.999, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124882 Archived-At: * jai-bholeki [2020-11-01 21:21]: > I did not understand the documentation. Now I got more confused. > Is there a function I can use that would not require me to hard code > the number? (make-string 10 (string-to-char "=")) -- There are 50 messages yet in my incoming mailbox.