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* splash screen column alignment
@ 2021-06-01 14:26 Joe Corneli via Emacs development discussions.
  2021-06-01 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joe Corneli via Emacs development discussions. @ 2021-06-01 14:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

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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.

I’ve attached some images showing

• the expected behaviour appearing by luck
• the flaw
• the fix (with whitespace mode enabled to highlight the point).


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* Re: splash screen column alignment
  2021-06-01 14:26 splash screen column alignment Joe Corneli via Emacs development discussions.
@ 2021-06-01 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2021-06-01 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joe Corneli; +Cc: emacs-devel

> 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.



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