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To: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
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Hello,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Monday, 30 Mar 2020 at 23:22, Kyle Meyer wrote:
>> It looks like the documentation became stale with b8d473a04 (org-table:
>> Insert new column to the right instead of the left, 2017-11-19).  Thanks
>> for updating it.
>
> Annoyingly, I would have preferred to have the column inserted to the
> left of the current column as this would be consistent with the
> insertion of rows.  It gets me every time I try to insert a column as I
> then have to shift columns.  And there's no way to insert a column at
> the beginning of the row easily.  Whereas adding a new column to the end
> is trivial: type anything after the last |.
>
> Could we leave the documentation as it is and change the behaviour?

Well, since I apparently made the change, I have to speak for it. 

When one presses M-S-Right in order to create a new column, I think
a reasonable expectation is :

1. to move point to the right,
2. to move point in the newly created column.

Consequently, a reasonable expectation is to create the column to the
right.

Note that adding a column to the beginning of the row is easy: just type
"|" near the beginning of the first cell.

Does that make sense?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou