From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question about align-to behaviour with wrap-mode Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:46:02 +0200 Message-ID: <83k03n14rp.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14204"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 14:46:40 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxTbj-0003U3-Q5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:46:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxTb0-0006kq-4e; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:45:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxTax-0006im-AJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:45:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxTaw-0005MF-RP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:45:50 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=vskdED5lxmeRBy2IGxtPHFot+cyoz6vyXKhyvxDD/Lk=; b=NNkMmXzb2wdq qK/jJuA87uYmm1ICbDYD83ghAJe/nlY/OhxW9UuZAO3h5mzcqrTg1paJftPrMzJ7clKrVl3J3AykA 04MAoadwjIPk3aw+qgvHwB4sqoIPnlyU5J5VV5fhENhK5VFYZvAXDmyWIOdJ4peqOPe2GcFrhFIZR AYN9CweOdq69LCgwyZb9gwrzOtsVwltKLWTzarGhdNDCwv3OJBc7+T190SiDjPlc5qwB6nekXZHZr VzNqs1uBP1epAdss+HSQmmb59sJV4h/ByL6UW9HnPEWxTuiKmlR9H6yvmIgzkL8DetdsX2R0Dit4g leVYxUS/LnfV8BA+6qIvEg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxTau-0000IV-Hs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:45:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali on Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:45:20 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141104 Archived-At: > From: Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali > 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.