Re: Automatically make a table with 16 columns

[uzibalqa]

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On Friday, September 16th, 2022 at 7:26 AM, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:


> * uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me [2022-09-16 03:17]:
> 
> > How can I automatically make a table with 16 columns in the current buffer?
> > The first row has numbers from 1 to 15, the second row from 16 to 31. 
> > Followed
> > by an additional two rows with entries that are empty.
> > 
> > Would need it to like like this
> > 
> > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
> > 
> > 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
> > 
> > [16 empty entries]
> > 
> > [16 empty entries]
> 
> 
> (table-insert COLUMNS ROWS &optional CELL-WIDTH CELL-HEIGHT)
> 
> C-h f table-insert RET
> 
> or user Hyperbole package to invoke following link:
> 
> {C-h f table-insert RET}
> 
> (progn (insert "\n")
> (table-insert 3 3 4 1))
> +----+----+----+
> | | | |
> +----+----+----+
> | | | |
> +----+----+----+
> | | | |
> +----+----+----+
> 
> Once you generate your table, populate it:
> 
> +----+----+----+
> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
> +----+----+----+
> | 4 | 5 | 6 |
> +----+----+----+
> | | | |
> +----+----+----+
> 
> once you have populated it

I have difficulty knowing how to populate the entries with lisp code.  Had a 
look at the Elisp Reference
but did not find much information.