[BUG] Columnview makes attributes wander [9.7.4 (9.7.4-1387e3 @ /home/rst/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.7.4/)]

[Raffael Stocker]

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Hello fellow org-modists,

in columnview dblocks, attribute and tblfm lines wander to the right
instead of staying in place when the table is re-evaluated (see the
example file in the appendix).  This could be cured with a couple of
‘string-trim-left’ applications in ‘org-columns-dblock-write-default’
like so:

diff --git a/lisp/org-colview.el b/lisp/org-colview.el
index 961ae0fbe..bc93941e4 100644
--- a/lisp/org-colview.el
+++ b/lisp/org-colview.el
@@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ defun org-columns-dblock-write-default
        ;; Insert affiliated keywords before the table.
        (when content-lines
          (while (string-match-p "\\`[ \t]*#\\+" (car content-lines))
-           (insert (pop content-lines) "\n")))
+           (insert (string-trim-left (pop content-lines)) "\n")))
        (save-excursion
          ;; Insert table at point.
          (insert
@@ -1675,7 +1675,7 @@ defun org-columns-dblock-write-default
          (let ((case-fold-search t))
            (dolist (line content-lines)
              (when (string-match-p "\\`[ \t]*#\\+TBLFM:" line)
-               (insert "\n" line)
+               (insert "\n" (string-trim-left line))
                (unless recalc (setq recalc t))))))
        (when recalc (org-table-recalculate 'all t))
        (org-table-align)

Regards,
Raffael

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Description: columnview with wandering lines