From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Feature request: shrink according to alignment (was Re: Org table columns without width cookies get shrunk on TAB) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:16:14 +0000 Message-ID: <87606rpu81.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87po5638ea.fsf@gmail.com> <87o9kqicys.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <8a0b873e-e9ea-2070-d276-702939e99511@gmx.de> <87bmgll2rh.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <97d48f48-a6b4-eaf6-5f31-8e38525b25a6@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38493) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eo9eY-0001aO-Lt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:16:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eo9eU-0003i1-3b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:16:22 -0500 Received: from mail-wr0-x22c.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c0c::22c]:47015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eo9eT-0003hU-T1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:16:18 -0500 Received: by mail-wr0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id 34so15372828wre.13 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:16:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <97d48f48-a6b4-eaf6-5f31-8e38525b25a6@gmx.de> (Julius Dittmar's message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:29:30 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Julius Dittmar Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, 19 Feb 2018 at 12:29, Julius Dittmar wrote: [...] > 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 =2D-=20 Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.6-352-g92176c --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQSPXCedOQfhSlwpVw3IkZPY//z2fQUCWow7vgAKCRDIkZPY//z2 fUJ1AJ9H5+1vs3jJDOKmOXkKK6Az6a2NEQCeOacGxRedxTjRKl1G75pgKLfaQ04= =ZkWF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--