Shrinking and Widening Org Tables
This post is more of a note to myself, something I can store in my single emacs blog org file, so if I forget again, I can quickly search.
I keep forgetting the keybinding to shrink and expand an org table.
I often define tables to have a narrower width than content using the <num> concept in the top line of the table, but when I want to expand, I just can’t remember the keybinding.
A search in *help* for org-table-shrink and org-table-expand reveals nothing!
Anyway, here is a note to myself:
C-c TAB (translated from C-c <tab>) runs the command org-ctrl-c-tab
(found in org-mode-map), which is an interactive native-compiled
Lisp function in ‘org.el’.
It is bound to C-c TAB.
(org-ctrl-c-tab &optional ARG)
Toggle columns width in a table, or show children. Call
‘org-table-toggle-column-width’ if point is in a table. Otherwise
provide a compact view of the children. ARG is the level to hide.
For clarity, within an Org table, pressing C-c <TAB> will toggle shrink/expand the state of the column that the point is currently in.
C-u C-c <TAB> will shrink all columns AND
C-u C-u C-c <TAB> will expand all columns
Right, that is a note, just for me 😀