Add a configurable Switch/Flag to disable auto-padding of table-cells

[SpocWeb]

Hi, thank you very much for supporting WYSIWYG-Tables natively.
But your latest adjustment of auto-padding table-cells to the same width
was a breaking change and creates friction, not only with me.

Auto-format tables (add padding to cells) for easy plain-text reading

will be implemented in v1.5.4. No ETAs.

Please as a switch so that we can disable that. That should not be much of an effort.

Problems:

• modifies all Rows, creating churn in versioning Systems
• breaks Plugin Table-Extended GitHub - aidenlx/table-extended: Extend basic table in Obsidian with MultiMarkdown table syntax
  • this Plugin is the only one left with ColSpan / RowSpan Rendering
  • alternatively support ColSpan / RowSpan directly

[allroundninja]

+1.

It’s a good feature to have, but it’s not suitable for all users.

• The additional auto-generated characters make the source mode view take up unnecessary screen estate for those who appreciate a minimal view. This can be particularly bothersome when a cell contains one long line or multiple lines.
• Auto-cleanup with a regex search and replace is a bit tedious and perhaps tricky in certain cases.
• An increase in file size may be disliked, even though the impact is minimal. One could argue this has an unnecessary impact on those who do not benefit from auto-padding when only using the live view editor.

[prozor]

+1

I switch to the native editor (mine is vim) when editing tables as it is much quicker and the padding makes editing more difficult.

I will often run a script to clean up the padding before editing - that is obviously not very effective.