Feature Request: Truncate Visible Characters?

[erwin]

I've found myself using vim table mode as a replacement for a spreadsheets. Sometimes you have a data value that you want to capture, say a real URL, or some other sometimes very long value but often shorter value.

It would be very cool if the column "visible width" could be defined, and anything beyond that value would be hidden. When your cursor is over that value, you could show the entire long value in the status bar or use pop up layers (not sure of the proper name - Also may be neovim exclusive)

A bit like the field wrap request

#178

Anyway, it's an awesome and super useful tool you've built. Hope you find it a useful suggestion, but if you don't I completely understand.

[dhruvasagar]

@erwin I think a better approach you might try for this would be to use something like markdown or dotoo (https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-dotoo) or vimwiki as your base document which has better support for links and can leverage concealing etc to show short text with the actual url hidden.

[dhruvasagar]

@erwin it turns out the alignment don't work well with conceal

[dhruvasagar]

@erwin I think this is very tricky and hard to do in a text document.