From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs scale generator? Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:33:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426192461 8627 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2015 20:34:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:34:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 12 21:34:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YW9o1-0000Jc-TQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:34:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW9o1-0008Oa-1M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50441) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW9no-0008OH-Uj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:33:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW9nj-0002WR-UZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41666) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YW9nj-0002WD-Nu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YW9nh-0008QI-Gu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:33:50 +0100 Original-Received: from 169.15.136.127 ([169.15.136.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:33:49 +0100 Original-Received: from dboyd2 by 169.15.136.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:33:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.136.127 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZC2lL4ckQ8or7E5uPSN4WR0h2uw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103121 Archived-At: Dan Espen writes: > Okay, I've needed this more than a few times and Google isn't helping. > I write and design a lot of fixed format data and I need > layout scales like this: > > 1...5...10...15...20... > > Anyone out there ever write anything like this? > Ideally I'd like to be able to do something like: > > Esc 80 M-x scale > > and get an 80 character long scale. > Up into the 100s for extra points: > > 95..100..105 Look at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/popup-ruler.el Dave