From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@pobox.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: format/fill of text in a cell in tables
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:45:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k78evcr.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM2GGynR6R4g1qZL9gPWGgjWyA5wzdmHYbkncYEWyso8-U=r2Q@mail.gmail.com>
George Michaelson <ggm@pobox.com> writes:
> Thank you for the continuing support for Org mode. I really appreciate
> the work done.
>
> I would love to understand why there is no built-in 'fill/wrap'
> function for text in a cell, inside an org mode table.
>
> Given how this is a layout mechanism, and heads to M-x ox-<exportform>
> outcomes, it would be useful to recognize the output is often table
> edit states which do respect fill/wrap/center
AFAIK, mostly technical difficulty. Emacs does not natively distinguish
individual table cells, so we would need to emulate cell editing if it
spans over multiple lines.
Patches are welcome!
Best,
Ihor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-16 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-16 5:16 format/fill of text in a cell in tables George Michaelson
2021-12-16 9:45 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2021-12-16 21:51 ` Tim Cross
2021-12-17 8:23 ` tomas
2021-12-17 12:11 ` Tim Cross
2021-12-17 18:46 ` tomas
2021-12-17 21:25 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-18 7:27 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-12-18 11:09 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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