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wrap-text-for-pane

Function
Summary

Wraps text for a given pane.

Package

capi

Signature

wrap-text-for-pane pane text &key external-width visible-width font start end => strings

Arguments

text

A string.

pane

A displayed CAPI pane.

external-width

An integer or nil.

visible-width

An integer or nil.

font

A font object.

start

An integer.

end

An integer or nil.

Values

strings

A list of strings.

Description

The function wrap-text-for-pane takes a string text and returns a list of strings. Together the strings in strings contain all the non-whitespace characters of text and are suitable for displaying this text on pane . That is, each string has a display width no greater than the width of pane when drawn using the font of pane . The arguments start and end are used as bounding index designators for text and characters outside these bounds are ignored.

If visible-width is non-nil then text is wrapped to that width. Otherwise, if external-width is non-nil then text is wrapped as if the pane had that external width (that is, taking account of any borders in the pane). If both visible-width and external-width are nil, then the text is wrapped to the current visible width of the pane. The default value of both visible-width and external-width is nil.

The font is used to perform the wrapping calculations. If it is nil (the default), then the graphics-state-font is used for panes such as output-pane that have a graphics-state and the simple-pane-font is used for other panes.

See also

wrap-text


CAPI User Guide and Reference Manual (Unix version) - 25 Feb 2015

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