From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Shrink columns dynamically
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:11:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d18mmbo2.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mv89skje.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:10:45 +0100")
Hello,
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> I have two use cases which currently are managed with the width cookies
> and I can see that they probably should be managed differently. The
> cases are:
>
> 1. a table with wide columns that is used to collect information
> (publications with authors, title, journal, etc. is an example) and
> which I use mostly by looking at it. That is, I open the document
> and scan down the table or page down or whatever. I want this table
> displayed initially with columns (e.g. title) narrowed to a specified
> width.
>
> 2. a table with many columns, too many of the screen width even if each
> column may only be a few characters wide, but one which I intend to
> be manipulating extensively. In this case, I may want to
> shrink/narrow/hide columns to make it easier to edit and do
> calculations.
>
> At present, I use width cookies for both. They work well for use case
> 1; much less well for use case 2. For me, these use cases are
> orthogonal. I would be happy with two different approaches or the same
> approach so long as the latter would retain the ability to save the view
> (for use case 1).
I pushed another take on the problem in "hide-table-column" branch.
Rebasing is required.
There, two commands are defined
- `org-table-toggle-column-width'
Shrink or expand column at point. More specifically, if the column
contains a width cookie, the column is shrunk according to it.
Otherwise, it is shrunk to 1 character. Here is its docstring:
Shrink or expand current column in an Org table.
If a width cookie specifies a width W for the column, the first
W visible characters are displayed. Otherwise, the column is
shrunk to a single character.
When optional argument ARG is a string, use it as white space
separated list of column ranges. A column range can be one of
the following patterns:
N column N only
N-M every column between N and M (both inclusive)
N- every column between N (inclusive) and the last column
-M every column between the first one and M (inclusive)
- every column
When called with `C-u]' prefix, ask for the range specification.
When called with `C-u C-u' prefix, expand all columns.
- `org-table-shrink'
Shrink all columns with a width cookie. Other columns are expanded.
This is morally equivalent to the current behaviour, although it is
now decoupled from aligning.
Moreover, I added two new STARTUP keywords: "shrink" and "noshrink",
which allow to apply aforementioned `org-table-shrink' command on all
tables upon opening a document. Not that "align" no longer toggle column
width.
Feedback welcome.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-27 10:12 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
[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 [this message]
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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