From: "Paul W. Rankin" via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: sbaugh@catern.com
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:13:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66A8ED9D-F4C1-4DC0-9D8D-7EB82EA82DF4@bydasein.com> (raw)
> From: sbaugh@catern.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:25:41 -0400
>
> Yes, that makes sense. So I'm asking about how difficult it would be to
> add a new element to the :align-to expression language, one which
> specifies the width of the current line.
I apologise in advance if I've misunderstood your aims, but you can use the
line-prefix text property and compute the value of :align-to based on the line
width and the window text width:
(defun center-align-line ()
(let (line-width align-col)
(setq line-width (- (line-end-position)
(line-beginning-position)))
(setq align-col (/ (- (window-body-width) line-width)
2))
(put-text-property (line-beginning-position)
(line-end-position)
'line-prefix
`(space :align-to ,align-col))))
Achieving this dynamically is dependent upon your major mode; if you're using a
markup syntax, you could use font-lock and a regular expression, or if manually
applied you could use a text property flag.
next reply other threads:[~2021-04-15 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-15 5:13 Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2021-04-15 7:04 ` Horizontal centering in the display engine Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-15 11:39 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
2021-04-15 12:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-15 13:05 ` Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development discussions.
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2021-04-13 18:25 sbaugh
2021-04-13 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-13 19:28 ` sbaugh
2021-04-13 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-13 20:49 ` sbaugh
2021-04-14 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-14 13:28 ` sbaugh
2021-04-14 13:42 ` Yuan Fu
2021-04-14 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-14 15:22 ` sbaugh
2021-04-14 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-14 15:25 ` sbaugh
2021-04-14 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-14 8:28 ` martin rudalics
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