Re: Why is `(1 . width)` zero?

[Robert Thorpe]

Jörg Sommer <joerg@jo-so.de> writes:

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>
> 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