On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:44 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
> > This is the patch I applied and tested? If so, I think it is a very good
> > thing and should be in master.
>
> This is the same patch, along with the complete removal of old column
> narrowing using width cookies.
>

The feature works nicely as explained, but please do not remove the width
cookie!

The new feature supports only completely hiding a column. But what we lose
by removal of width cookie is:

- Ability to truncate text in columns to a particular width (like 10) so
that I can at least know what the content of that cell is about. And then
to edit the cell, I would do C-c ` (org-table-edit-field). This is very
useful for cells with verbose texts. That way, I can fit all the columns in
a single screen width.
- Also heavily missed will be retaining the narrowed/hidden state of the
columns.
-- 

Kaushal Modi