Right align a single line

Right align a single line

[Noah Slater]

Hello,

How do I right align a single line, such as:

- foo

So that it is flush with the right margin, like:

                                                                          - foo

If I run M-x set-justification-right, I end up with:

-                                                                           foo

Which is obviously not what I want.

Doing that also results in the rest of what I have to type being right aligned.

Thanks,

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater

Right align a single line

[Noah Slater]

Hello,

How do I right align a single line, such as:

- foo

So that it is flush with the right margin, like:

                                                                          - foo

If I run M-x set-justification-right, I end up with:

-                                                                           foo

Which is obviously not what I want.

Doing that also results in the rest of what I have to type being right aligned.

Thanks,

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater

Re: Right align a single line

[Anselm Helbig]

At Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:38:23 +0100,
Noah Slater <nslater@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> How do I right align a single line, such as:
> 
> - foo
> 
> So that it is flush with the right margin, like:
> 
>                                                                           - foo
> 
> If I run M-x set-justification-right, I end up with:
> 
> -                                                                           foo
> 
> Which is obviously not what I want.
> 
> Doing that also results in the rest of what I have to type being right aligned.

Try to stick this in your .emacs:

  (setq adaptive-fill-mode nil)

Alternatively you can customize adaptive-fill-regexp to not include a
dash, so that fill-paragraph and friends still work properly for
e.g. email quotes.

HTH, 

Anselm


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Anselm Helbig 
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Re: Right align a single line

[Noah Slater]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:36:47PM +0200, Anselm Helbig wrote:
> Try to stick this in your .emacs:
>
>   (setq adaptive-fill-mode nil)
>
> Alternatively you can customize adaptive-fill-regexp to not include a
> dash, so that fill-paragraph and friends still work properly for
> e.g. email quotes.

That seemed to do the trick with regard to the dash.

How do I justify a single line to the right, without affecting subsequent lines?

Thanks,

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater

Re: Right align a single line

[Noah Slater]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:36:47PM +0200, Anselm Helbig wrote:
> Try to stick this in your .emacs:
>
>   (setq adaptive-fill-mode nil)
>
> Alternatively you can customize adaptive-fill-regexp to not include a
> dash, so that fill-paragraph and friends still work properly for
> e.g. email quotes.

Actually, that didn't work, because now it won't wrap indented blocks.

Thanks,

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater

Re: Right align a single line

[John A Pershing Jr]

Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:

> How do I justify a single line to the right, without affecting
> subsequent lines?

There used to be a function to do exactly that, back when Emacs was
implemented in TECO and only ran on DEC mainframes.  (It was said that
merely three Emacs users could bring a KL-20 to its knees, although that
was an exaggeration.)

However, I can't find anything, so you will have to roll your own
function and, optionally, assign it to a key.  The required
functionality appears to be in 'justify-current-line', but this really
needs to be called from a wrapper defun -- it's not set up for direct
binding to a key.

  -jp