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envelope-from=A.HajiAli@hw.ac.uk; helo=GBR01-CWL-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:24:30 -0500 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:141134 Archived-At: Thanks Eli for explaining. > I don't see the correct alignment here. I see a behavior similar to the > first recipe, as I'd expect. This is what I see with this example on my Emacs 28.2 (assume window width is 50): ,---- | EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE | After `---- So the text is "correctly" aligned to (- right 10) on the second line. Are you seeing something different? The only problem I see is that when the word is broken and word-wrap is off then I get ,---- | EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Af | ter `---- while if word wrap is on I get ,---- | EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE | After `---- > 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)? Or is there a way to have `align-to` be calculated from a function? Thanks, -- Al ________________________________ Heriot-Watt University was founded in 1821 and is a registered Scottish charity (SC000278).