From: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Column width cookies stopped working in 9.2.3?
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 11:32:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKuG=vv+Kzjd+g5xaMDkHxQOCWq0KFN987axz1i9yjF1-v5HGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnon4anu.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com>
On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 22:39, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just to clarify: my intention was to advertise etc/ORG-NEWS more
> widely and point out that it's probably the best place to learn about
> things that are likely to break one's workflows (and if you read it
> before you update, you just might avoid unpleasant surprises - and
> this is not a specific "you", but a general "you" that includes
> everybody, including me: I often forget to do this and suffer the
> consequences).
Understood, and I appreciate your reply and interest in this topic.
> > Am I right about my use case being different, and therefore perhaps
> > having been caught up unintentionally in this change?
> >
>
> That may well be true: personally, I always thought of these cookies as minimum width specifiers, not
> maximum width.
>
> But I think you could do what you want by having a row that contains fixed width strings, instead of
> width cookies. To make it as unobtrusive as possible, I'd use non-breaking spaces as the character:
>
> | | | |
> | | | |
>
> There may be better solutions, but this is what sprang to my mind after reading your use case.
Yes indeed, and that is the solution that I'm now using. I'm not
totally sure yet if it's a durable solution or just a workaround - but
it's working for now.
Best wishes,
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-13 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-11 9:42 Column width cookies stopped working in 9.2.3? Neil Jerram
2019-05-11 14:30 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-05-11 23:28 ` Nick Dokos
2019-05-12 12:15 ` Neil Jerram
2019-05-12 21:37 ` Nick Dokos
2019-05-13 10:32 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2019-05-14 6:21 ` Michael Brand
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