Re: Bug: Org 9.3 table columnwidth directive not working [9.3 (release_9.3 @ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/org/)]

[Pankaj Jangid]

Kyle Meyer <address@hidden> writes:
> Pankaj Jangid <address@hidden> writes:
>> C-c TAB is working but earlier the behaviour was to apply <width>
>> directive by default on next electric formatting. Has the behaviour
>> changed in 9.3?
> 9.2, I believe, more specifically 6d6a30d4c (org-table: Implement shrunk
> columns, 2017-06-27).  The relevant NEWS entry, added in 6e5598dc3
> (Document new column display, 2017-08-19), is
>
>   *** =align= STARTUP value no longer narrow table columns
>
>   Columns narrowing (or shrinking) is now dynamic. See [[*Dynamically
>   narrow table columns]] for details. In particular, it is decoupled from
>   aligning.
>
>   If you need to automatically shrink columns upon opening an Org
>   document, use =shrink= value instead, or in addition to align:
>
>   #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>   ,#+STARTUP: align shrink
>   #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> Quickly digging, here are some related threads on the mailing list:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-07/msg00214.html
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-09/msg00217.html

Thanks for sharing this information. I wasn't aware of this change. This
is working fine.

Regards,
-- 
Pankaj Jangid