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> 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.