From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Jerram Subject: Re: Column width cookies stopped working in 9.2.3? Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 11:32:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87tve04llx.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> <87pnon4anu.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53363) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQ8Ft-0004BT-1a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2019 06:32:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQ8Fr-00067A-Ei for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2019 06:32:24 -0400 Received: from mail-lj1-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::22b]:34287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hQ8Fr-00065b-62 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2019 06:32:23 -0400 Received: by mail-lj1-x22b.google.com with SMTP id j24so9636589ljg.1 for ; Mon, 13 May 2019 03:32:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87pnon4anu.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Nick Dokos Cc: Org Mode List On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 22:39, Nick Dokos 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