Re: Question about align-to behaviour with wrap-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali <a.hajiali@hw.ac.uk>
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:45:20 +0000
> 
> > The bottom line is that you cannot use relative alignment if your lines can
> > wrap, and hope for that to work.  For wrapped lines the alignment must be to
> > absolute column numbers, and it must take the continuation lines into
> > consideration when you calculate the alignment column.
> 
> I see. Do you mean that I should write a hook to update the alignment of 
> "After" as more text is inserted before it (to calculate the alignment column 
> taking the continuation lines into considerations)?

Yes, something like that.

Basically, align-to is not well suited to deal with continued lines.