From: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Table aligning and editing in 9.2
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:16:15 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1709081003210.32477@shell.miskatonic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871snizie1.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
On 7 September 2017, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> What workflow are you missing? Note that typing in a shrunk column
> expands it.
Previously one could edit the contents of a cell in a shrunken column without
doing anything special: move the point in, move to a position, then hit any key
(space, delete, a letter), and the change is made. If a character is deleted
then the => at the end comes closer; if added it moves away. C-c C-c or TAB
realigns everything. Everything is directly editable: the text can be operated
on without any barriers.
But now the cell contents are locked until either a) C-C ` opens up an edit
buffer (which was useful before for editing a long piece of text that got
shrunk, but is a lot of work when you have something short like "Foo" in a <10>
column and want to make it "Bar") or, as you point out, b) something is typed in
the shrunk column.
But when something is typed in a shrunk column, the column expands and the point
is now at the start of the cell. To edit anything in the cell, you need to hit
"a" or SPC or something just to get in there, then you need to delete it, then
move to where you want to make a change, then edit.
And then C-c C-c or TAB doesn't realign things, you need to hit C-c TAB.
So the workflow is different, and in each piece it's more awkward. Everything
works---and I appreciate that the code and implementation is much cleaner
now---but it seems like some of the magic that makes Org tables so wonderful is
now gone. :(
Bill
--
William Denton :: Toronto, Canada --- Listening to Art: https://listeningtoart.org/
https://www.miskatonic.org/ --- GHG.EARTH: http://ghg.earth/
Caveat lector. --- STAPLR: http://staplr.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-07 14:12 Table aligning and editing in 9.2 William Denton
2017-09-07 14:27 ` William Denton
2017-09-07 14:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-09-08 14:16 ` William Denton [this message]
2017-09-08 19:41 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-09-12 16:49 ` Kaushal Modi
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.orgmode.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alpine.DEB.2.02.1709081003210.32477@shell.miskatonic.org \
--to=wtd@pobox.com \
--cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
--cc=mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).