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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Shrink columns dynamically
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:47:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87379iw17d.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170712191429.pfos63zjpmxxboda@eyeBook.local> (Rick Frankel's message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:14:29 -0400")

Hello,

Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> writes:

> Personally, my use of width cookies has been mostly for visual display of
> columns are very long and will wrap in an html or latex table export, but
> would force the display too wide. My ideal default would be to have a setting
> which would shrink tables a reasonable (fill-column?, window-width?) visual
> display, with perhaps a min-column-width option and trying to balance the
> width of each column base on its un-narrowed total width, perhaps trying to
> keep narrow columns as-is in the process. For me this would probably align
> cognitively with how much info is needed to grok the cell contents.

It would be a fun optimization problem to solve, but I doubt it would be
much useful (e.g., pathological cases getting in the way...).

> I like a single cycling command.

[...]

> Wouldn't a min-column-width setting to use when there is no cookie solve the
> the bi- vs tri-state problem (every column has three states)

For the sake of simplicity, I opted for two states cycling in the latest
proof of concept. It means that columns with a width cookie cannot be
narrowed to 1 character, but I assume it is an acceptable restriction
since the width cookie is probably there for a reason.

> P.S. and (somewhat) off topic: The doc string for
> `org-ascii-table-use-ascii-art' is out of date. `ascii-art-to-unicode.el' is
> now in elpa and the url no longer works.

Fixed. Thank you.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-27 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-10 12:12 [RFC] Shrink columns dynamically Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-10 14:36 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-10 14:43   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-10 19:47     ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-10 20:14       ` Nick Dokos
2017-07-10 20:59       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-11  6:27         ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-11  7:54           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-11  8:35             ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-11 11:41               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-11 12:03                 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-11 12:24                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-11 17:56                     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-07-11 19:09                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-11 19:23                         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-07-12  7:22                           ` Colin Baxter
2017-07-12 10:17                             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-12 16:06                               ` Colin Baxter
2017-07-12 19:14                               ` Rick Frankel
2017-07-27 11:47                                 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
     [not found]                             ` <158a779e34564ef98104c442384dadd3@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2017-07-12 16:10                               ` Eric S Fraga
2017-07-16 10:54                                 ` B.V. Raghav
2017-07-27 10:14                                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-27 10:11                                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-31 22:29                                   ` Adam Porter
2017-08-05 22:56                                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
     [not found]                                 ` <e59b6e794bff46c29380611204d00402@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2017-07-27 10:49                                   ` Eric S Fraga
2017-08-05 22:54                                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-08-19 16:54                                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-09-06 13:29                                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-11 20:21                         ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-11  9:32             ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-10 22:11     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-07-11  6:16       ` Michael Brand
2017-07-11 11:18         ` Deleting org table columns during export (Was: [RFC] Shrink columns dynamically) Kaushal Modi
2017-07-11 16:43           ` Michael Brand
2017-07-11 11:47         ` [RFC] Shrink columns dynamically Nicolas Goaziou
2017-07-11 16:40           ` Michael Brand

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