If you're running Emacs on a graphic environment, there is a mouse tooltip showing the whole cell contentes when you hover over a truncated cell.
Regards, .j. On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:48:56PM +0100, Johnny wrote: > I have a table with ridiculously long lines, so I have limited them by > putting '<N>' in the first row. To edit them, I use 'C-c `' to get the > full text in a separate buffer, which works fine, especially together > with 'longlines-mode'. However, browsing the table contents is very > cumbersome, so I am wondering if there is any way to make the > 'org-table-edit-field' to be permanently visible in a buffer, > automatically updating while moving around in the table to view the full > content of the current cell? Similar to the way BBDB pops up and shows > the sender in a separate buffer, if known.