From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about align-to behaviour with wrap-mode
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:46:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k03n14rp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x1o8rk3pbkf.fsf@hw.ac.uk> (message from Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali on Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:45:20 +0000)
> From: Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali <a.hajiali@hw.ac.uk>
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:45:20 +0000
>
> > The bottom line is that you cannot use relative alignment if your lines can
> > wrap, and hope for that to work. For wrapped lines the alignment must be to
> > absolute column numbers, and it must take the continuation lines into
> > consideration when you calculate the alignment column.
>
> I see. Do you mean that I should write a hook to update the alignment of "After" as more text is inserted before it (to calculate the alignment column taking the continuation lines into considerations)?
Yes, something like that.
Basically, align-to is not well suited to deal with continued lines.
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2022-11-22 9:45 Question about align-to behaviour with wrap-mode Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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