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Re: Text placed within a specific length width


From: Heime
Subject: Re: Text placed within a specific length width
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:12:58 +0000

On Sunday, June 30th, 2024 at 1:53 PM, Jordan Wilson via Users list for the GNU 
Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> On 2024-06-30 (Sun) at 12:11 (+0000), Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I would like to have an elisp function that inserts text inside a a string
> > of a specific size to avoid having to introduce leading or trailing spaces.
> 
> > Thus something like this for text of width 15
> > (insert-w "Line Wrap" 15)
> > (insert-w "Karl Koch" 15)
> > (insert-w "Microsk Spez" 15)
> 
> 
> `string-pad' pads a string to particular length:
> (string-pad "Karl Koch" 15)
> returns
> "Karl Koch "
> 
> See describe-function for details
> 
> Thanks,
> Jordan Wilson
> Sent from Gnus v5.13, GNU Emacs 29.4 on GNU/LINUX

I can pad at back.  Is there other tool to pad at front ?




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