From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Julius Dittmar <Julius.Dittmar@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: shrink according to alignment (was Re: Org table columns without width cookies get shrunk on TAB)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:45:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu5uk1mc.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97d48f48-a6b4-eaf6-5f31-8e38525b25a6@gmx.de> (Julius Dittmar's message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:29:30 +0100")
Hello,
Julius Dittmar <Julius.Dittmar@gmx.de> writes:
> What I think this was about: Assume, the following table is set up for
> right-aligned output (that's one of the things I don't know how to do,
> but that's fine with me):
>
> | a very long entry which enforces a long table cell |
> | a moderately long entry |
> | a short entry |
>
> Assume further that this table is to be displayed showing only 19
> characters. As I understand the original post, the outcome at the moment
> would be something like :
>
>
> | a very long entr... |
> | ... |
> | ... |
For the record, it is more like
| a very long entr…|
| …|
| …|
> What I would prefer is:
>
> | a very long entr... |
> | a moderately lon... |
> | a short entry |
So the narrowing is done field wise and not column wise. If you are in
the last cell, you cannot possibly tell the column is narrowed unless
you check other levels.
> 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.
There is a misunderstanding here. One of the motivation of the current
implementation of columns narrowing is to _not change the buffer_. It
hides characters, but never removes them.
So, if you want to remove characters on the right, you need to hide them
somehow. So, I still think you would need to narrow on both sides.
I have the gut feeling this is not very practical.
I agree right-aligned -- and center-aligned -- fields are not perfect,
but I cannot think of a good design for these at the moment.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-21 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 15:58 Org table columns without width cookies get shrunk on TAB Kaushal Modi
2018-02-14 17:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-02-14 17:54 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-02-14 19:19 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-02-15 9:25 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-02-15 12:05 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-02-15 12:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-02-14 18:58 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-02-15 9:32 ` Feature request: shrink according to alignment (was Re: Org table columns without width cookies get shrunk on TAB) Eric S Fraga
2018-02-15 13:44 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-02-15 14:04 ` Julius Dittmar
2018-02-19 9:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-02-19 11:29 ` Julius Dittmar
2018-02-20 15:16 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-02-21 11:45 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2018-02-21 12:11 ` Julius Dittmar
2018-02-15 16:01 ` Eric S Fraga
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