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Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?
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Rasmus |
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Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells? |
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Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:25:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Matt,
Matt Price <address@hidden> writes:
> I have a project which will require me to enter about a paragraph in each
> of 5 fields several times a day. I would use org tables, but I need to be
> able to see the table contents in the buffer, and org hides long lines. I
> tried using table.el but it feels incredibly clumsy - for instance, I can't
> find a way to add a row to the end of the table, which seems crazy.
AFAIK there's no "word-wrap for tables" (but it would be cool).
I never figured out tabel.el, either. I don't
> I am wondering what other people do in this situation - I guess I could
> use a spreadsheet or an odt document but I would much rather stay in emacs
> if I can.
I'm sure you are already aware of this, but the only way I can think of is
the following:
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
| <5> | <5> | <5> | <5> | <5> |
|-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
| | | | | |
#+TBLFM:
Which will truncate the column at <5> characters and where you can edit a
cell with "C-c `"...
—Rasmus
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- [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Matt Price, 2015/03/02
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?,
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- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Charles C. Berry, 2015/03/02
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Charles C. Berry, 2015/03/03
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Tory S. Anderson, 2015/03/03
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Jude DaShiell, 2015/03/05
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Skip Collins, 2015/03/05
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Tory S. Anderson, 2015/03/05
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Skip Collins, 2015/03/05
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- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Skip Collins, 2015/03/06
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Tory S. Anderson, 2015/03/06
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Skip Collins, 2015/03/06