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| Maxhrk
USA (76 posts) Bio
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Date
| Sun 15 Apr 2007 05:57 PM (UTC) Amended on Sun 15 Apr 2007 05:59 PM (UTC) by Maxhrk
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| I try to find a way to make my helpfile look elegant or whatever you call it.. like with tab. example below:
HELP
----------------------------------
1) Start
...
00) Credits
----------------------------------
well i have read about <ESC>H is tab right? athough AnsiNote dont have it since i have look all over the document already. :)
any suggestion? thanks. | Top |
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| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
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Date
| Reply #1 on Sun 15 Apr 2007 09:21 PM (UTC) |
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| It is Ctrl+I (hex 0x09).
In Lua you could do it like this:
tab = string.char (9)
print (tab .. "hello" .. tab .. "world")
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | Top |
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Posted by
| Maxhrk
USA (76 posts) Bio
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Date
| Reply #2 on Sun 15 Apr 2007 09:22 PM (UTC) |
Message
| ah string.char..
okay thanks you very much for help, Nick Gammon. | Top |
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Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
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Date
| Reply #3 on Sun 15 Apr 2007 09:23 PM (UTC) |
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| If you are using Lua another approach is to look up string.format, and use fixed-width text fields.
For example:
print (string.format ("%-10s %-10s", "hello", "world"))
-->
hello world
If you say %10s, then you have a string that takes at least 10 positions (more if it is wider), and the "-" makes it left-justified. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | Top |
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Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
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Date
| Reply #4 on Sun 15 Apr 2007 10:40 PM (UTC) |
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| Of course, a simpler way in Lua is to use the \t character. For example:
print ("hi \t there")
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | Top |
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Posted by
| Maxhrk
USA (76 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Sun 15 Apr 2007 11:52 PM (UTC) |
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| thanks again, Nick.. Yeah I do use Lua, i think it is awesome anyway. :) | Top |
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