From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Underline the current line (function inside)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:33:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMOCWV9xZvDE4aoD@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lf7ga1yk.fsf@gnu.org>
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-06-11 17:53]:
> > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:32:26 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> >
> > This function is handy to underline the current line:
> >
> > (defun underline-line ()
> > "Underline the current line."
> > (interactive)
> > (let* ((start (line-beginning-position))
> > (end (line-end-position))
> > (length (- end start)))
> > (end-of-line)
> > (newline)
> > (insert (make-string length ?=))
> > (newline)))
>
> This assumes that each character takes 1 column. That is false in
> general, because some characters have zero width on display, and some
> others take closer to two columns.
>
> You need to use string-width instead, or count columns instead of
> buffer positions.
>
> And, of course, all this assumes fixed-pitch font.
Thanks.
(defun underline-line ()
"Underline the current line."
(interactive)
(let* ((start (line-beginning-position))
(end (line-end-position))
(length (string-width (buffer-substring-no-properties start end))))
(end-of-line)
(newline)
(insert (make-string length ?=))
(newline)))
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2021-06-11 14:32 Underline the current line (function inside) Jean Louis
2021-06-11 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 15:33 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-06-11 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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