Re: Tables recently stopped aligning

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:

> 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!

The problem is that the highlighted condition is always true.  There are
two things causing this.  First, format doesn't truncate string unless you
do something like %40.40.  Second, buffer-substring also returns invisible
text.  In practice this imply that tables can only grow and not truncate
now.

    ;; Replace modified lines only.
    (dolist (l lines)
      (let ((line (if l (apply #'format rfmt (append (pop fields) emptystrings))
		    hfmt)))
	(if (equal (buffer-substring (point) (line-beginning-position 2)) line)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Rasmus

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