Re: newbie elisp help ??

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

William Case wrote:
> > Try this:
> >
> >    M-: (insert (make-string 50 ?*))
>
> Unfortunately, (make-string 50 ?*) is the single character '*', I was
> shooting for something that was a repetition of two characters (*SPC) so
> that my section divider looked like:
>
> /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
>
> I would begin and end the function with (insert 47).
>
> I tried (insert (make-string 5 "* ")) and variations thereof, i.e. with
> and without quotes and ASCII numbers.

Can this help:

(while (< (current-column) 50) (insert "* "))