From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: "Jörg Sommer" <joerg@jo-so.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is `(1 . width)` zero?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 06:53:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9btwh6i.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210118085113.7rz2pnm2t5sn7y3k@jo-so.de> (message from Jörg Sommer on Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:51:13 +0100)
Jörg Sommer <joerg@jo-so.de> writes:
> [1:text/plain Hide]
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using GNU Emacs 27.1¹ with X and the font DejaVu Sans Mono. I would like
> to align a text on the right side and thought I can use this:
>
> ```lisp
> (let* ((text " abcd")
> (len (length text))
> )
> (add-text-properties 0 1 `(display (space :align-to (- text (,len . width)))) text)
> (insert "\n" (format "%S" text) "\n" text "\n"))
> ```
I don't understand your problem. But I this snippet looks wrong:
> (- text (,len . width))
You can't do arithmetic on a pair.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-19 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-18 8:51 Why is `(1 . width)` zero? Jörg Sommer
2021-01-18 15:06 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-18 20:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-01-18 22:23 ` Jörg Sommer
2021-01-19 9:37 ` Jörg Sommer
2021-01-19 10:32 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-24 10:45 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-24 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-19 6:53 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2021-01-19 7:59 ` tomas
2021-01-19 9:37 ` Robert Thorpe
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