Function: describe-char-padded-string

describe-char-padded-string is a byte-compiled function defined in descr-text.el.gz.

Signature

(describe-char-padded-string CH)

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/descr-text.el.gz
;; Return a string of CH with composition for padding on both sides.
;; It is displayed without overlapping with the left/right columns.
(defsubst describe-char-padded-string (ch)
  (if (and (display-multi-font-p)
	   (internal-char-font nil ch))
      (compose-string (string ch) 0 1 (format "\t%c\t" ch))
    (string ch)))