I use the built-in table editor. I create a few rows of information. I save the file and embed it. Then when I highlight the table and right click, edit table, it launches the table editor, but it is blank.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Hmmm... can you provide more detail - it works fine for me.
Does it work when you create a new table with the table editor? What happens when you edit a simple table?
Only thing I can think of is that the table you're editing might not be a valid table layout... Can you post your table?
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This is the full md file. I created it using the table editor and only make edits using the table editor. Looks fine in the preview but when open it in the table editor all hell breaks loose.
| Command or short cut | Function | category | Sub-Category | example or note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alt+tab | Windows | Switch between open programs. Quickly switch between the currently running apps. | ||
| tmux new -s name | Create new bash session | Linux | Tmux / Shell / Bash | (CTRL+b, d) to leave running |
| tmux attach -t name | attach to - session | Linux | Tmux / Shell / Bash | (CTRL+b, %) to SPLIT Screen |
| tmux attach -t name | attach to - session | Linux | Tmux / Shell / Bash | (CTRL+b, o) to Move |
| tmux ls or list-sessions | lists current sessions | Linux | Tmux | You can write a script that launches tmux with the required programs. I have the following in a shell script that I call dev-tmux. A dev environment: #!/bin/sh tmux new-session -d 'vim' tmux split-window -v 'ipython' tmux split-window -h tmux new-window 'mutt' tmux -2 attach-session -d So everytime I want to launch my favorite dev environment I can just do $ dev-tmux |
| tmux split-window -h | Splits sessions horizontally | |||
| tmux list-keys | ||||
| tmux list-commands | Lists all tmux commands and arguments | |||
| tmux info | Lists every session, window, page, pid etc. | |||
| tmux + d | detach current session | |||
| tmux ctrl-b, d | detach current session | |||
| tmux PAIN Management | Panes Management
(: swap-pane -U ) - move current pane up
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(: swap-pane -D ) - move current pane down
«C-a>f ( : swap-pane -L )- move current pane to the left
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| tmux cursor PANE management | Close Window
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| Ctrl+Z | UNDO | Windows | ||
| Ctrl+Y | REDO | Windows | ||
| Ctrl+A | Select ALL | Windows | ||
| Ctrl+V | PASTE | Windows | ||
| Ctrl+C | COPY | Windows | ||
| Ctrl+F | FIND / SEARCH | Windows | ||
| WIN+TAB | DISPLAY WINDOWS | Windows | ||
| printenv | Display environment variable names | Linux | Environment / Shell | eddyb@ubuntu-test-server-100:~$ printenv SHELL=/bin/bash PWD=/home/eddyb LOGNAME=eddyb XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty MOTD_SHOWN=pam HOME=/home/eddyb LANG=en_US.UTF-8 |
| env | Shell environment info. | Linux | Environment / Shell | |
| export | Saves variable to environment | Linux | Environment / Shell | Allows other bash session to access variable. |
| ls | list files | Linux | Files | ls -l , ls -la, ls -ltr |
| Ctr + X | CUT / DELETE | Windows |
Took a look and there's some problem with the Close Window section. If that section is removed the table shows up fine.
Also your table as posted doesn't include the closing table line - but that didn't make the table fail to be parsed once I removed the offending row.
I'll take a look, but my guess is it's related to some formatting combination that breaks the table parsing.
Looks like the pipe character | in that field is the problem...
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Ok, so the issue is related to a couple of things:
|characters in a Grid table have to be escaped as\|- But even with that the table was still broken due to invalid parsing of this
\| - This is now fixed in
2.6.9.2(pre-release download)
To explain:
The | character on its own in Markdown inside of a Grid Table is treated as a column separator so using it as content without escaping breaks the table - that's why the table fails to parse. The | throws off the column count in the row it's used. A | in grid (or pipe) table content is not valid on its own for this reason.
Despite that however Markdown Monster was broken as it also didn't correctly parse the escaped pipe \| character. That is now fixed.
So to fix for your exact scenario:
- Update to 2.6.9.2
- Change the
|in the Markdown to\| - Now edit should work
When you edit in the editor the escaped \| is turned into | for editing. When you embed the table it'll correctly encode the pipe to \| in the Markdown.
Note: Even with the new version this will still break if the table initially has
|instead of\|in content as the pipe will be interpreted as an extraneous column that unbalances the table.
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Excellent. Thank you. I will download and test. I noticed that the source of most of these issues came when I copied the markdown of a section from the editor, e.g. block section or a code block section, and then pasted it into the table editor. All of a sudden, the extra pipe characters showed up and caused issue. If I copied the exact same section from the preview or web view, there were no issues.
So, is it possible to copy/paste into the table editor from the md editor without this issue?
The issue is that | characters need to be encoded in Markdown. If you paste an encoded \| from Markdown into the editor it will be encoded and result in an extra \. MM handles the conversion when you edit the table or format, but not when you type or paste. Basically you need to be aware of | in your markdown and do the right thing visa vis encoding (in Markdown) or not encoding (in the table editor).
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I am looking at a process flow that handles these issues. Does Github still work with only pipe and html tables.
Big Question: How to modify width of columns OR the table itself. When the data in my columns grows, the table does not center properly and starts to expand to the right. It looks awkward. Is there a limit to table and or page size. Can I change this setting somewhere?
Thank you
The Markdown syntax has no support for table widths or layout - tables will just auto-adjust. How it renders is determined by the platform that hosts it. GitHub pretty much uses a completely auto-sizing table with a max-width: 100%.
Although GitHub supports HTML tables it doesn't allow most custom tags so even if you were to add custom styling and column widths that doesn't actually render on GitHub (although it will show in the MM preview).
Markdown tables are not well suited for lots of data in cells. It works but there's very little control.
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Thank you! Excellent feedback and information.