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

Feature requests
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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.

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

Problems:

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+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.
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+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.

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+1

I’d really like an option for minimal or more human-readable markdown for tables. I work with a lot of markdown files from Obsidian using LLMs, and while Obsidian’s table markdown looks nice, it uses up so many characters. Right now, I use a Python script to create minimised versions of the markdown files. Since I use live preview in Obsidian, making the table markdown look pretty isn’t important to me.

Thanks.