While this doesn’t quite fall under the “bug” category, it for sure is way far from being a “help” request. Moving things around doesn’t solve problems.
Padding / auto-formatting on tables is infuriating, to say the least. Others say that its “hard to read” or “hard to edit” on plain text, but honestly I find it quite more difficult having to delete one by one all the extra text formatting adds.
Can’t believe that a 7 likes post (Auto-format tables (add padding to cells) for easy plain-text reading) (out of 3.0k views to date) is considered enough approval for such feature to be implemented, while there are posts such as this one and more* complaining about it, plus comments against it that also received extra support.
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- Option to Disable Auto-format tables (add padding to cells) in Live Preview
- Option to Disable Auto-format tables (add padding to cells) in Live Preview
- Add a configurable Switch/Flag to disable auto-padding of table-cells
- Liveditor and table cause large obsidian file that are not loaded by obsidian
The outrage is pretty loud, or at least louder than the original request was.
It adds extra, unrequested data that can make the software lag and our files grow up insanely. And, in my personal experience, trying to clean it up can break the note or even delete the table entirely.
I’m 100% pro feature requests, but no one seems to realize that, while for some it might be broken, for others it’s working perfectly. Why not add an option that toggles on / off said feature instead of forcing all users to accept stuff only a few want? The amount of likes doesn’t matter on this one; the opinions are truly polarized.
I can’t seem to get any plugins or CSS to disable it, so I’m going to +1 this post. It messes my notes so badly; if I wanted to have all that extra stuff, maybe I would’ve typed it myself. Hope people keep making noise about it.
Less moving posts around, more helping others.