Hi all, I don't know if this issue has been raised before (it's a bit difficult to google it).
I was just committing a single line change to an org-mode table into git, and the diff isn't good at all: the whole table appears to have changed. Well, not really - just a few spaces were added on each table line because the single new line caused a need to re-align the whole table. So I'm thinking: if org-mode uses overlays for links to make some of the real text invisible, why not keep the plain text aligned and use the overlays to align the fontified text? Having a good-looking plain text is an achievement in itself, but using an smart allocation strategy (like std::vector growth) to add more spaces than needed each time a column grows, would alleviate the diff problem, i.e. the diff would show only a single line change most of the time a line is added or removed. I'd like some feedback on whether: - it's done already and I just haven't enabled this behavior - it can't be done because of some complex issue - it can be done, but just isn't a priority In the third case maybe some pointers on where to start implementing would help. regards, Oleh
