Thanks for locating this. I don't know enough about Org's workings to see what in the change introduced the bug, but something did go wrong, and column widths + table alignments are broken. I hope someone can fix it! Bill On 7 July 2015, Nick Dokos wrote: > William Denton writes: > >> Last week I got caught up on a week or two of Emacs and Org >> development (I run both from development trees) and some tables >> stopped aligning. I worked one down to five lines: >> >> https://gist.github.com/wdenton/ab890c36090cd4048d49 >> >> With Org compiled from the dev tree in Git, when I load that file >> (align.org) and hit C-c C-c, it doesn't align. emacs -Q loads Org >> 8.2.10 (from the Emacs source) and it does align. >> >> Does it work for others? I assume it does---surely if other people >> noticed this problem they'd have reported it already. >> > > I can reproduce it with release_8.3beta-1274-gc76fef. > I bisected it to the following commit: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > 6d60138260d54bf8403b9c87155682447808335e is the first bad commit > commit 6d60138260d54bf8403b9c87155682447808335e > Author: Nicolas Goaziou > Date: Sun Jun 28 15:45:31 2015 +0200 > > org-table: Do not modify buffer needlessly when aligning table > > * lisp/org-table.el (org-table-align): Compare new table with old one > before replacing it. Only replace modified lines. > > :040000 040000 2ef4220238baf6508c5de7270b6ac37733ac0934 f7d7ff100f0fdaee2ddab08b3514908d6d7643a0 M lisp > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/