Re: [O] Tables recently stopped aligning

[William Denton]

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 <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden>
> 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---

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