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From: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Shrink columns dynamically
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:16:38 +0200
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Hi Nicolas

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:

> The feature works nicely as explained, but please do not remove the width
> cookie!
>
> The new feature supports only completely hiding a column. But what we lose
> by removal of width cookie is:
>
> - Ability to truncate text in columns to a particular width (like 10) so
> that I can at least know what the content of that cell is about. And then to
> edit the cell, I would do C-c ` (org-table-edit-field). This is very useful
> for cells with verbose texts. That way, I can fit all the columns in a
> single screen width.
> - Also heavily missed will be retaining the narrowed/hidden state of the
> columns.

+1

Also I hope that you can build in complete removal of columns for
export similar to as discussed around here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2016-04/msg00672.html

Michael