Re: variable-pitch-mode misaligns org-mode heading tags

[Jeff Filipovits]

> Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> writes:
>
> Hrm, no this isn't good enough.  For graphical windows we still 
> need
> to set the display text properties to align all tags when the 
> buffer
> initially loads.  AFAICS there's currently no code to trigger 
> this,
> so it would need to be added, and for large files this might 
> actually
> cause problems with file loading time unless it was done in the
> background (a bit like fontification can be done).

A few issues I found:

1. If the headline text exceeds the org-tags-column, the tags are 
moved so there is no space between the headline and the tag. This 
is only aesthetic, since in reality there is still a space 
there. Not sure this needs to be fixed. 

2. If you try to insert a space at the end of the headline, it 
will be gobbled automatically because org-self-insert-command 
calls org–align-tags-here. With this method of aligning tags I 
don’t think org-self-insert-command needs to make this call, 
because the display text property updates automatically on 
redisplay. So the solution may be take that call out, but I don’t 
know if that will break anything. Otherwise, maybe the code 
ensuring there is one space is not really necessary. 

3. Org-indent-mode creates a problem. Not sure why yet, or whether 
it’s org-indent-mode or some setting I have associated with it, 
but tags of child nodes don’t align properly. 



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