Hi Nicolas,
emacs version: GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2018-05-30
orgmode version: Org mode version 9.2 (9.2-elpa @ c:/Users/dad/Dropbox/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20181230/)
I don't know what an ECM is. Need some clarification.
However, regarding the first issue of TAB and RETURN opening the table. I explained this wrong, and suspect the release was coded up as designed. No error messages were displayed. But, with further analysis, the expansion occurs in at least these scenarios:
- if you delete a row out of the table with 'kill-whole-line
- insert a row (org-shiftmetadown) then UNDO (undo)
- it seems that 'undo opens the table in many cases
C-u C-c TAB works as explained.
C-c C-c on the STARTUP keyword works as explained.
This is the table I was experimenting with:
** TABLES (Section 3.1). insert a vertical bar with `\vert'
|-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Key sequence | description |
| <20> | <48> |
|-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| M-x table-insert | tell it # of cols, rows, cell width & height |
| M-x table-capture | turn text into a table - asks for delimiter and other stuff. use ^Q^J for the carriage return. |
| C-u C-c TAB | narrow all the columns (was C-c C-c) |
| C-c TAB | dynamically narrow column |
| C-c - | horizontal line |
| C-u C-c - | horizontal line above |
| C-c ^ | sort |
| C-c + | sum columns |
| C-y | insert total |
| M-LEFT\RIGHT | move column left\right |
| M-S-LEFT | kill column you're in |
| M-S-RIGHT | insert col to right |
| M-S-UP | kill row |
| M-S-DOWN | insert row above |
| M-x org-table-import | import TAB-delimited file |
| C-c ` | edit truncated text in a separate window. |
| C-c \vert | create table from region |
| M-x org-table-export | export TAB-delimited file |
| S-RET | copy cell above down to current cell |
| junk | junk |
|-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Thanks for your help. If I need to create a bug report on the unexpected column expansion, I suspect that is what an ECM is, could you point to the right page for sending one?
The release note on these changes could use additional information. I was able to find this page (
https://orgmode.org/Changes.html#orge5c3346) which helped me initially, but
`C-c C-c' on the STARTUP keyword and `C-u C-c C-TAB' mappings you explained to me were missing.
- explain the new mapping of C-u C-c TAB which does the old format behavior.
- I would have never guessed to do C-c C-c on the STARTUP keyword to format everything in the file. Perhaps a reference to that would be helpful. To me it seems like an unusual thing to do, so I may have missed documentation on this behavior that is found elsewhere.
According to general release note (
https://orgmode.org/Changes.html) it says that editing a column (do you mean a cell?) opens it up and displays everything. This does not seem to be working for me. "C-`" still works fine for editing long contents.
Thanks again,
Craig Luthy