bug#55207: 29.0.50; tab-bar-format-align-right only works correctly with monospace characters

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> Thanks for the bug report.  Indeed the property :align-to
> in tab-bar-format-align-right fails to align to the proper width
> when using a variable pitch font.  Unfortunately, I have no idea
> how to fix this.

I am completely unfamiliar with how the tar bar works, but -- can't you
just measure the widths of the elements with string-pixel-width or the
like and use that to compute the alignments?

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