GNU bug report logs - #54917
Allow revealing content when tabulated list column is not wide enough

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From: Denes Kis <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
 the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Allow revealing content when tabulated list column is not wide enough
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:12:51 +0000

When a column is not wide enough to show content then the content is cut off and a ... character appears beside it.

To make it easy to see the full content add a mouse over, so when mouse is over this character or other character of the cut of content, a tooltip appears showing the full content of the cell.

To make it easy to resize a column to fit content, if the user clicks the ... character then a popup menu can appear with an item like 'Resize column to fit content', so it can be done with a single click.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Denes Kis <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 54917 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54917: Allow revealing content when tabulated list column
 is not wide enough
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:19:28 +0200

Denes Kis <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> When a column is not wide enough to show content then the content is
> cut off and a ... character appears beside it.
>
> To make it easy to see the full content add a mouse over, so when
> mouse is over this character or other character of the cut of content,
> a tooltip appears showing the full content of the cell.

You don't say what Emacs version you're reporting this issue for, but
this is how Emacs 29 already works.

> To make it easy to resize a column to fit content, if the user clicks
> the ... character then a popup menu can appear with an item like
> 'Resize column to fit content', so it can be done with a single click.

I'm not sure that sounds quite generally useful enough -- you can resize
the column easily enough with the `}' command.

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Message #13 received at 54917 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Denes Kis <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 54917 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54917: Allow revealing content when tabulated list column is
 not wide enough
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 04:36:51 +0000

>
> You don't say what Emacs version you're reporting this issue for, but
> this is how Emacs 29 already works.

I reported for Emacs 28, but I'll check the 29 next time. Thanks.

>
> I'm not sure that sounds quite generally useful enough -- you can resize
> the column easily enough with the `}' command.

Fit size does it one step, instead of having to press } several times. Maybe beside the menu it could be on a key too, like C-} or something.

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