> From: Aleksandr Vityazev <avitya...@disroot.org>
> Cc: 73...@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:39:37 +0300
>
> On 2024-09-05 10:36, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:45:14 +0300
> >> From: Aleksandr Vityazev via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >>
> >> There is a problem in vtable.el when an emoji is specified as a delimiter;
> >> the
> >> header and row delimiters are not aligned.
> >>
> >> Minimal reproducer for emacs -Q:
> >>
> >> (require 'vtable)
> >> (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*test*")
> >> (make-vtable
> >> :columns '((:name "Name" :width 20) "Size" "File")
> >> :objects (buffer-list)
> >> :actions '("k" kill-buffer
> >> "RET" display-buffer)
> >> :divider " 🍉 "
> >> :getter (lambda (object column vtable)
> >> (pcase (vtable-column vtable column)
> >> ("Name" (buffer-name object))
> >> ("Size" (buffer-size object))
> >> ("File" (or (buffer-file-name object) "")))))
> >> (switch-to-buffer "*test*"))
> >>
> >> Screenshot is attached.
> >
> > I cannot get them aligned even if I replace the Emoji character with
> > an ASCII character, like 'x'. Can you?
> No, I can't.
>
> > AFAICT, there's inconsistency in whitespace calculation between the
> > header line and the body of the table, due to the desire to display
> > the sorting indicator not quite right-aligned. The patch below
> > attempts to fix that; does it give good results?
>
> The patch helped, but there are still some issues. I was able to achieve
> alignment with the following settings:
> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "monospace" :height 210)
>
> With: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "monospace" :height 220)
> the header separators are also misaligned. My patch is based on the one
> that was sent; I just commented out the insertion of an extra space
> after the column name.
Thanks, I've now installed the changes with your modification, and I'm
therefore closing this bug.
