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From: Juan Pechiar <juan@pechiar.com>
Subject: Re: Org table with long lines visibility
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:07:51 -0300
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To: Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk>
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If you're running Emacs on a graphic environment, there is a mouse
tooltip showing the whole cell contentes when you hover over a
truncated cell.

Regards,
.j.

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:48:56PM +0100, Johnny wrote:
> I have a table with ridiculously long lines, so I have limited them by
> putting '<N>' in the first row. To edit them, I use 'C-c `' to get the
> full text in a separate buffer, which works fine, especially together
> with 'longlines-mode'. However, browsing the table contents is very
> cumbersome, so I am wondering if there is any way to make the
> 'org-table-edit-field' to be permanently visible in a buffer,
> automatically updating while moving around in the table to view the full
> content of the current cell?  Similar to the way BBDB pops up and shows
> the sender in a separate buffer, if known.