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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Julius Dittmar <Julius.Dittmar@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: shrink according to alignment (was Re: Org table columns without width cookies get shrunk on TAB)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:58:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmgll2rh.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a0b873e-e9ea-2070-d276-702939e99511@gmx.de> (Julius Dittmar's message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:04:40 +0100")

Hello,

Julius Dittmar <Julius.Dittmar@gmx.de> writes:

> I think what the OP really would like is something like this: remove
> leading whitespace until everything can be displayed or no more leading
> whitespace remains, then truncate at the end if necessary. That way as
> much meaningful contents as possible is displayed. At least that's what
> I would wish in this situation.

I understand the idea, but the implementation seems tricky. It means Org
may sometimes have to hide characters on both sides of a field. and
sometimes not. It doesn't sound visually appealing.

I may be wide off the mark, tho. Do you have some specifications in
mind, or at least some examples?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-19  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-14 15:58 Org table columns without width cookies get shrunk on TAB Kaushal Modi
2018-02-14 17:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-02-14 17:54   ` Kaushal Modi
2018-02-14 19:19     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-02-15  9:25       ` Eric S Fraga
2018-02-15 12:05         ` Kaushal Modi
2018-02-15 12:41           ` Eric S Fraga
2018-02-14 18:58   ` Kaushal Modi
2018-02-15  9:32 ` Feature request: shrink according to alignment (was Re: Org table columns without width cookies get shrunk on TAB) Eric S Fraga
2018-02-15 13:44   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-02-15 14:04     ` Julius Dittmar
2018-02-19  9:58       ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2018-02-19 11:29         ` Julius Dittmar
2018-02-20 15:16           ` Eric S Fraga
2018-02-21 11:45           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-02-21 12:11             ` Julius Dittmar
2018-02-15 16:01     ` Eric S Fraga

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