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From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: odd table behavior
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:33:51 +0530
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:33 PM, David Ellis wrote:
> I haven't used tables much so please forgive me if this is a dumb question.
>
> I thought if I typed the following:
>
> |this|is|a|test|
> |will tables work?|
>
> and I pressed the enter key with the cursor at the end of the second
> line, the tables would reformat. This doesn't seem to be working
> anymore for me. If I press the <TAB> key that reformats.
>
> I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1on Windows with org version 6.33f.
>
> I also noticed that if I type |- at the beginning of a line and then
> hit return, it remains |-. If I press <TAB>, it works correctly.
>
> First of all, am I correct that return should reformat.

I don't think so.  I don't recall tables ever functioning that way.
Did they behave this way earlier?

> If so, what should I check to try to fix this.

May be you can rebind org-cycle to another key if TAB is inconvenient,
say C-j or something?  But I guess that is not what you need.

-- 
Manish