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Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces
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Alex |
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Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces |
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Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:09:53 -0600 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 23:22:59 -0600
>>
>> (setq header-line-format
>> (concat (propertize " "
>> 'display
>> '(space . (:align-to 0)))
>> "test"))
>>
>> (setq header-line-format
>> (propertize "test"
>> 'display
>> '(space . (:align-to 0))))
>>
>> It's not a big deal, but it's makes things look cleaner, especially when
>> the string in question is also being propertized.
>
> The 'space' display property is of the "replacing" kind, i.e. it
> completely replaces the text which has that property. So implementing
> what you want would need a new property at least. Or maybe you could
> use the '(space-width FACTOR)' display spec instead, and prepending a
> single SPC character that precedes the string characters? (This
> assumes the string itself doesn't have embedded SPC characters; if it
> does, put this display property only on the initial SPC character.)
I guess I replied to this part in Bug#28771 (sorry for fragmenting the
discussion).
> FWIW, having a 'space' display property on some whitespace character
> sounds very intuitive to me, since this feature was supposed to be
> used to display white space subject to pixel-level resolution
> considerations of a GUI frame.
It does to me as well, but it would be nice to have similar
functionality to :align-to in arbitrary strings.
Something like the following, that would align the string similar to
:align-to does a space:
(propertize "test"
'display
'(align-to EXPR))
where EXPR can be the same as in :align-to.
>> P.S. I noticed that the above does not take into account the space taken
>> by `display-line-numbers'.
>
> That's because it isn't clear whether it should be done for every
> header-line. For example, the Info mode will certainly not want
> that. So this has to be done by the Lisp program, because only it
> knows whether the text in the header line should be aligned with the
> rest of buffer text.
I don't understand. The Info mode header isn't aligned at all (for
example, toggling fringe and linum-mode (for the margin) doesn't change
the position of the info header). Only headers with an `:align-to num'
property would be affected.
Here is what the manual says about :align-to:
For example, ‘:align-to 0’ in a header-line aligns with the first
text column in the text area.
I would consider "the first text column" to be column 0, so the current
behaviour is incorrect.
If line-number display is treated specially, then there should also be a
`line-number' element for the :align-to and :width specs.
- Using :align-to with non-spaces, Alex, 2017/10/09
- Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/10
- Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces,
Alex <=
- Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/10
- Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces, Alex, 2017/10/10
- Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/10
- Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces, Alex, 2017/10/10
- Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/11
- Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces, Stefan Monnier, 2017/10/11
- Re: Using :align-to with non-spaces, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/10/12