Re: Emacs scale generator?

[Dan Espen]

dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) writes:

> Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> 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

Yep comes close.
Of course, I want the ruler to stay around, I can probably figure that
out.


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Dan Espen