From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Shrink columns dynamically
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:10:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv89skje.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <158a779e34564ef98104c442384dadd3@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:17:26 +0000")
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Hi Nicolas,
I agree completely with your stated objective, specifically separating
viewing from content and/or export. However, I am not sure this is
achievable without losing some quite appealing current functionality.
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).
As always, I look forward to whatever you decide to implement!
thanks,
eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-12 16:11 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 [this message]
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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