I have (setq-default auto-fill-function 'do-auto-fill) in my config file, and I'm noticing that in org mode, auto-fill/wrapping occurs even within (wide) tables, which I don't like.
I confirmed that if I set the variable to nil, this no longer happens, but I don't want to disable this across the whole file, just in the tables. Is there some way to say "I want auto-fill, but not inside my org tables"?
Try not setting auto-fill-function at all in your config file: it is set from normal-auto-fill-function which is do-auto-fill by default, but it is org-auto-fill-function in Org mode buffers. There is no need for you to set it.
That way, with an Org mode buffer, and with auto-fill mode turned on, normal paragraphs get filled appropriately but table entries are not touched. You can check the value of normal-auto-fill-function in that buffer by using C-h v normal-auto-fill-function, which should say:
normal-auto-fill-function is a variable defined in ‘simple.el’.
Its value is ‘org-auto-fill-function’ Local in buffer foo.org; global value is do-auto-fill
