i like that. such an org edit special type feature could efven in principle work for a column or a row all at once.
On 3/18/21, Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> wrote: > Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> writes: > >> From watching these discussions in the past, I think the big stumbling >> block is how easily multi-row columns can be added and maintained in the >> various export formats. Some are easy, like HTML, but others are less >> so. In particular, I know from my many years working with Latex, >> multi-row columns are not straight-forward. There are lots of edge cases >> to deal with and it is hard to get a consistent result programatically. >> >> Proposals like this one can seem simple and straight-forward on the >> surface. However, implementation is another matter. All of the exporters >> will need to be updated to handle this new syntax and it will probably >> take a fair bit of work to handle it correctly in just plain org files >> (formatting, highlighting etc). > > I don't know if anyone has come up with this other possibility: if the > problem is (usually) the inconvenience of editing cells with a lot of > text within an Org document (since when exporting to LaTeX for example, > it makes no difference whether the cell content is on a single line, if > the tabularx package is used properly), then the possibility of editing > a cell in a dedicated buffer would be very practical here. A kind of > `org-edit-special' for cells... That could be combined with > `org-table-toggle-column-width'. > > Best regards, > > Juan Manuel > > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
