While the intent was good, saving column width/sort was unfortunately not handling the addition of new columns and old configs were losing columns. If this is restored, it should have some check on column with invalidation of config.
/*
** $Id: lstring.h,v 1.43.1.1 2007/12/27 13:02:25 roberto Exp $
** String table (keep all strings handled by Lua)
** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
*/
#ifndef lstring_h
#define lstring_h
#include "lgc.h"
#include "lobject.h"
#include "lstate.h"
#define sizestring(s) (sizeof(union TString)+((s)->len+1)*sizeof(char))
#define sizeudata(u) (sizeof(union Udata)+(u)->len)
#define luaS_new(L, s) (luaS_newlstr(L, s, strlen(s)))
#define luaS_newliteral(L, s) (luaS_newlstr(L, "" s, \
(sizeof(s)/sizeof(char))-1))
#define luaS_fix(s) l_setbit((s)->tsv.marked, FIXEDBIT)
LUAI_FUNC void luaS_resize (lua_State *L, int newsize);
LUAI_FUNC Udata *luaS_newudata (lua_State *L, size_t s, Table *e);
LUAI_FUNC TString *luaS_newlstr (lua_State *L, const char *str, size_t l);
#endif