On Monday, 19 Feb 2018 at 12:29, Julius Dittmar wrote:

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> This does not really mean cutting on both ends, at least not more than
> org already does. Org already does add or subtract leading or trailing
> whitespace as needed. The change I'd love would spell something like
> "first remove all whitespace, then cut (at the end) to length if needed,
> and then add whitespace to archieve the defined alignment".

Actually, I would be happy with simply removing leading whitespace
before truncating to fit the shrunken width...  I am not actually
bothered about the alignment when columns are shrunk; it's about
information content rather than style as my use case is for tables that
are too wide for the working comfortably with the current window width.

thanks,
eric

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