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From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>
Cc: 26032 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#26032: Indenting in tabulars without &
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 20:28:47 +0100

Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp> writes:

Hi Keita,

> I'm afraid that the fix has to be reconsidered.

And I was afraid that this would happen; it seemed just too easy ;-)

> The current code does not work as expected when the whole tabular
> environment itself is indented like the following examples.
>
> \begin{table}
>   \begin{tabular}{ll}
>     \multicolumn{2}{c}{These lines will} `M-RET here'
>   \end{tabular}
> \end{table}
>
> \begin{table}
>   \begin{tabular}{ll}
>     \multicolumn{2}{c}{These lines will}  \\
>     & `C-c C-q C-e here'
>   \end{tabular}
> \end{table}
>
> So it is not sufficient to examine whether `(- (current-column) 1)' is
> negative or not.  I suppose that comparing the `(current-column)' and
> `beg-col' would be necessary.  (Or just using `(max (- (current-column)
> 1) (+ 2 beg-col))' might be sufficient.  I haven't considered the
> situation in detail yet.)

Thank you very much for double checking.  I think I won't revert my last
change; it fixes at least part of the problem.  I will also think about
it again (but your suggestion above looks quite appealing to me).

Best, Arash

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