truncate-lines for org tables, visual-line-mode for rest?

truncate-lines for org tables, visual-line-mode for rest?

[Vladimir Alexiev]

I use visual-line-mode to wrap long lines on display.
But for org tables, wrapping makes the display very confused.
Is it possible to have truncate-lines ONLY for lines that represent tables?

Re: truncate-lines for org tables, visual-line-mode for rest?

[Tory S. Anderson]

I solve this problem in my tables by using a table length-constraining parameter:

| my table | long-cell  |
|          | <10>       |
|          | tons of text that should be cut off at a reasonable length (just 10 chars) and not run on forever               |
|          |                                                                                                                 |


produces:

| my table | long-cell  |
|          | <10>       |
|          | tons of te |
|          |            |


"Vladimir Alexiev" <vladimir.alexiev@ontotext.com> writes:

> I use visual-line-mode to wrap long lines on display.
> But for org tables, wrapping makes the display very confused.
> Is it possible to have truncate-lines ONLY for lines that represent tables?

Re: truncate-lines for org tables, visual-line-mode for rest?

[Grant Rettke]

How do you configure this parameter to achieve that effect?

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Tory S. Anderson
<torys.anderson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I solve this problem in my tables by using a table length-constraining parameter:
>
> | my table | long-cell  |
> |          | <10>       |
> |          | tons of text that should be cut off at a reasonable length (just 10 chars) and not run on forever               |
> |          |                                                                                                                 |
>
>
> produces:
>
> | my table | long-cell  |
> |          | <10>       |
> |          | tons of te |
> |          |            |
>
>
> "Vladimir Alexiev" <vladimir.alexiev@ontotext.com> writes:
>
>> I use visual-line-mode to wrap long lines on display.
>> But for org tables, wrapping makes the display very confused.
>> Is it possible to have truncate-lines ONLY for lines that represent tables?
>



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Re: truncate-lines for org tables, visual-line-mode for rest?

[Eric S Fraga]

On Monday, 26 Jan 2015 at 21:43, Vladimir Alexiev wrote:
> I use visual-line-mode to wrap long lines on display.
> But for org tables, wrapping makes the display very confused.
> Is it possible to have truncate-lines ONLY for lines that represent tables?

I have the same issue.  I do have visual-line-mode bound to a key so I
can toggle this on and off easily but it would definitely be nice if I
didn't have to do anything...  however, I think it will be difficult to
automate this.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.1, Org release_8.3beta-726-gd34b80.dirty

Re: truncate-lines for org tables, visual-line-mode for rest?

[Michael Brand]

Hi all

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Monday, 26 Jan 2015 at 21:43, Vladimir Alexiev wrote:

>> I use visual-line-mode to wrap long lines on display.
>> But for org tables, wrapping makes the display very confused.
>> Is it possible to have truncate-lines ONLY for lines that represent tables?

> I have the same issue.  I do have visual-line-mode bound to a key so I
> can toggle this on and off easily but it would definitely be nice if I
> didn't have to do anything...  however, I think it will be difficult to
> automate this.

Carsten made an Emacs feature request for this here
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5018

As I am also very interested in this I commented there now. Please
help me by showing your interest there too.

Michael