Re: infloop with :align-to display property

[Kim F. Storm]

Jesper Harder <address@hidden> writes:

> Hmm, it's not clear to me exactly what is allowed here.  Any
> expression that evaluates to an appropriate number, or what?  (I
> couldn't find anything about it in the manual).

It's not yet in the manual.  Did you read the description in NEWS ?

> 
> Something like this works:
> 
>   (insert #(" " 0 1 (display (space :align-to (- fill-column 5)))))
> 
> But this doesn't work:
> 
>   (defun two () 2)
>   (insert #(" " 0 1 (display (space :align-to (two)))))
> 
> Why?

The only arithmetic that is allowed is:

        (+ expr expr ...)
        (- expr expr ...)
        (expr . expr)  => multiplies CAR and CDR.

Actually, :align-to (two) means to take value of "two" and use it as a
number of pixels, where :align-to two takes the value of "two" and
uses it as a number of (default width) characters.

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