Re: Tables recently stopped aligning

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> 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:

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6d60138260d54bf8403b9c87155682447808335e is the first bad commit
commit 6d60138260d54bf8403b9c87155682447808335e
Author: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
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
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Nick