no visual-line-mode for tables

no visual-line-mode for tables

[Frieder Wittmann]

Hi,

I'm new here. First of all, I'd like to thank the whole team here for the terrific work!
I've been long looking for a tool like this for a long time. I was so desperate that I entertained the idea of writing my own lightweight markup language. But never would I have achieved anything close to what you guys have created!
Until a month ago, I didn't use emacs for more than quick tasks, like commit messages in the command line. Now I spend more time in emacs than any other program. Org-mode is an absolute KILLER APP! And yes, Im spreading the word. Several of my colleagues and friends have started using org-mode now and Carsten Dominik's book proofs to be a nice and nerdy present. 

Here is a question I have:
	I like to use visual-line-mode when writing text in emacs. However for long org-mode tables, the automatic line wrap becomes very ugly, to the point where the table is almost unreadable. 
Is there a way to have visual-line-mode on, but deactivated for tables, so that you would have to scroll to the side to read the full table?

best
Frieder

Re: no visual-line-mode for tables

[Bastien]

Hi Frieder,

Frieder Wittmann <frieder.wittmann@googlemail.com> writes:

> And yes, Im spreading the word. 

Thanks for the nice words and for spreading the world :)

The next release comes with 128 person to thank.  
That tells certainly a lot.

> Is there a way to have visual-line-mode on, but deactivated for tables, so
> that you would have to scroll to the side to read the full table?

Sadly enough, I don't know of any fix for this at the moment.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: no visual-line-mode for tables

[Scott Randby]

On 08/24/2012 08:48 AM, Bastien wrote:
> Hi Frieder,
> 
> Frieder Wittmann <frieder.wittmann@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> And yes, Im spreading the word. 
> 
> Thanks for the nice words and for spreading the world :)
> 
> The next release comes with 128 person to thank.  
> That tells certainly a lot.
> 
>> Is there a way to have visual-line-mode on, but deactivated for tables, so
>> that you would have to scroll to the side to read the full table?
> 
> Sadly enough, I don't know of any fix for this at the moment.
> 

I second the desire for such a feature. Unfortunately, I do not have
enough knowledge to figure out how to implement it.

Scott Randby