Re: table

[Kevin Rodgers]

harven wrote:
>  I am trying to build a text-based table under emacs 22.1 stable. I
> want to change the characters used to draw the borders of the table.
>
> From the emacs manual, I have to set a few
> variables:
> (setq table-cell-intersection-char ?\u2504B)
> (table-cell-vertical-char ?\u2503)
> (setq table-cell-horizontal-chars ?\u2501)
>
> Everything is fine for the two first variables, but
> it doesn' t work for the last.
> I had a look at the table.el file. There is only
> one place where table-cell-horizontal-char
> is mentioned, at the very beginning. The variable
> used thereafter is table-cell-intersection-chars
> and contains a string instead of a character.

You meant table-cell-horizontal-chars, right?

> (setq table-cell-horizontal-chars "\u2501")
> finally worked for me but I am still wondering
> what's going on there. Any hint ?

The mention of singular -char in the Commentary of table.el and in the
Emacs manual are documentation bugs: there is no such variable.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA