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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joe Corneli <joseph.corneli.em@hyperreal.enterprises>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: splash screen column alignment
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 18:30:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tumhzjp2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsy1mziq.fsf@Proteus> (emacs-devel@gnu.org)

> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:26:53 +0100
> From:  Joe Corneli via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Depending on the size of the font I use, alignment of the text in the
> *GNU Emacs* buffer (which is done with single tabs) may or may not work
> properly.  I’ve found this would be fixed by starting with 2 tabs
> separating the columns, and then running:
> 
> (align-regexp (point-min) (point-max) "\\(\t\\)[A-Z]")
> 
> as part of the construction of the buffer.

IMO, align-regexp is overkill for this.  We should simply use
:align-to display spec there, which is a core feature that doesn't
need to load any Lisp.

Thanks.



      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-01 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-01 14:26 splash screen column alignment Joe Corneli via Emacs development discussions.
2021-06-01 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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