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From: Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
To: org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Links in tables: could the plain text also look good?
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:00:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA01p3otSnYePi+GDaxTp=w=03XChGP5aWTz9z+56c7y6O1gAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

I don't know if this issue has been raised before (it's a bit
difficult to google it).

I was just committing a single line change to an org-mode table into
git, and the diff isn't good at all: the whole table appears to have
changed. Well, not really - just a few spaces were added on each table
line because the single new line caused a need to re-align the whole
table.

So I'm thinking: if org-mode uses overlays for links to make some of
the real text invisible, why not keep the plain text aligned and use
the overlays to align the fontified text?

Having a good-looking plain text is an achievement in itself, but
using an smart allocation strategy (like std::vector growth) to add
more spaces than needed each time a column grows, would alleviate the
diff problem, i.e. the diff would show only a single line change most
of the time a line is added or removed.

I'd like some feedback on whether:

- it's done already and I just haven't enabled this behavior
- it can't be done because of some complex issue
- it can be done, but just isn't a priority

In the third case maybe some pointers on where to start implementing
would help.

regards,
Oleh

             reply	other threads:[~2014-03-06 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-06 19:00 Oleh [this message]
2014-03-06 22:33 ` Links in tables: could the plain text also look good? Ilya Shlyakhter
2014-03-06 22:39 ` Michael Brand

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