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commit 6d6a30d4cd682732ba40328bbeb96122a50f96ff
Author: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Date:   Tue Jun 27 23:06:02 2017 +0200

     org-table: Implement shrunk columns

     * lisp/org-table.el (org-table-shrunk-column-indicator): New variable.
     (org-table-with-shrunk-columns): New macro.
     (org-table--shrunk-field):
     (org-table--list-shrunk-columns):
     (org-table--shrink-field):
     (org-table--read-column-selection):
     (org-table--expand-all-columns):
     (org-table-toggle-column-width): New functions.

     (org-table-align):
     (org-table-get-field):
     (org-table-insert-column):
     (org-table-delete-column):
     (org-table-move-column):
     (org-table-move-row):
     (org-table-insert-row):
     (org-table-insert-hline):
     (org-table-kill-row):
     (org-table-sort-lines): Use new functions.

     (org-table-overlay-coordinates):
     (org-table-toggle-coordinate-overlays): Tiny refactoring.

     * testing/lisp/test-org-table.el (test-org-table/toggle-column-width):
     (test-org-table/shrunk-columns): New tests.

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2202d9db07c6bb02c03f6ba6b992542b82f0dafe M    lisp
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- thomas


On 28.10.2017 16:25, thomas wrote:
> hm, I recompiled org mode and found this warning:
>
> Compiling /home/thomas/dev/elisp/orgmode/org-mode/lisp/org-table.el...
>
> In org-table-align:
> org-table.el:812:24:Warning: split-string called with 4 arguments, but 
> accepts
>     only 1-3
>
> this might be related to my error ... line 812 in org-table.el:
>
>    (split-string (buffer-substring beg end) "\n" t "[ \t]")))
>
> My Emacs version is 24.3.50.1
>
> - thomas
>
>
> On 28.10.2017 12:01, thomas wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> org mode table align (<TAB> key) is broken on my installation.
>>
>> I'm using the latest version from github:
>>
>>  Org mode version 9.1.2 (release_9.1.2-154-g99dbca @ 
>> /home/thomas/dev/elisp/orgmode/org-mode/lisp/)
>>
>> This is the message I get when pressing <TAB> on any table:
>>
>>  org-table-align: Wrong number of arguments: #[(string &optional 
>> separators omit-nulls) "ƒ
>>
>> This is the output from toggle-error-on-debug:
>>
>>  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #[(string 
>> &optional separators omit-nulls) "\203
>>
>>  [separators omit-nulls split-string-default-separators list notfirst 
>> start t 0 nil string-match rexp keep-nulls string] 5 1652423] 4)
>>   split-string(#("| test\n" 0 6 (fontified nil face org-table) 6 7 
>> (fontified nil)) "\n" t "[     ]")
>>   org-table-align()
>>   org-table-next-field()
>>   call-interactively(org-table-next-field)
>>   org-cycle(nil)
>>   call-interactively(org-cycle nil nil)
>>   recursive-edit()
>>   debug()
>>   call-interactively(debug record nil)
>>   command-execute(debug record)
>>   execute-extended-command(nil "debug")
>>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)*
>> *
>>
>> I can't figure out what's wrong with my installation ... any 
>> suggestions would be very helpful!
>>
>> thank you,
>>
>> thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>