Re: [O] Table aligning and editing in 9.2

[William Denton]

On 7 September 2017, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

> What workflow are you missing? Note that typing in a shrunk column
> expands it.

Previously one could edit the contents of a cell in a shrunken column without 
doing anything special: move the point in, move to a position, then hit any key 
(space, delete, a letter), and the change is made.  If a character is deleted 
then the => at the end comes closer; if added it moves away.  C-c C-c or TAB 
realigns everything.  Everything is directly editable: the text can be operated 
on without any barriers.

But now the cell contents are locked until either a) C-C ` opens up an edit 
buffer (which was useful before for editing a long piece of text that got 
shrunk, but is a lot of work when you have something short like "Foo" in a <10> 
column and want to make it "Bar") or, as you point out, b) something is typed in 
the shrunk column.

But when something is typed in a shrunk column, the column expands and the point 
is now at the start of the cell.  To edit anything in the cell, you need to hit 
"a" or SPC or something just to get in there, then you need to delete it, then 
move to where you want to make a change, then edit.

And then C-c C-c or TAB doesn't realign things, you need to hit C-c TAB.

So the workflow is different, and in each piece it's more awkward.  Everything 
works---and I appreciate that the code and implementation is much cleaner 
now---but it seems like some of the magic that makes Org tables so wonderful is 
now gone. :(

Bill
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