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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Column width cookies stopped working in 9.2.3?
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 19:28:26 -0400
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Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have tables with width cookies like this:
>
> | <16>             | <6>   | <64>                              |
>
> I just added new information to one of those tables, and the table
> shrank down to match the size of the content, i.e. as though Org is
> now ignoring the width cookies.
>
> I believe I've also upgraded in the last few days, and now have:
> Org mode version 9.2.3 (9.2.3-13-g727c3f-elpa @
> /home/neil/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20190506/)
>
> Is this a known thing?  Do I need something else now to make those
> width cookies work?
>

As Eric says, things have changed in this area. It's always a good
idea to check the /etc/ORG-NEWS file for such things.  In this
particular case, read the section entitled "Dynamically narrow table
columns" in the Version 9.2 "New features" section of etc/ORG-NEWS.

-- 
Nick

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