From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Making TAB a touch more magical
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:39:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26C91EC5-1CF7-4CC5-B5A6-4C4C7E9D29D7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F212CCC7-A85C-4BD6-B715-E9272786A5E4@gmail.com>
On Nov 2, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> On Oct 17, 2009, at 2:59 AM, John Wiegley wrote:
>
>> In most "power" outliners on the Mac, pressing TAB indents the
>> outline level of the current item. This lets you add subnotes very
>> quickly by typing M-RET TAB. (I find M-S-<right> way too
>> cumbersome to use while typing).
>>
>> Since pressing TAB on a new entry (one with no body) doesn't do
>> anything right now, I think TAB in that case should do what M-S-
>> <right> does. This little snippet achieves that:
>>
>> (defun org-indent-empty-items (arg)
>> (when (eq arg 'empty)
>> (goto-char (line-end-position))
>> (cond
>> ((org-at-item-p) (org-indent-item 1))
>> ((org-on-heading-p) (org-demote-subtree)))))
>>
>> (add-hook 'org-pre-cycle-hook 'org-indent-empty-items)
>
> Hi John,
>
> this is not a bad idea, but it is a bit unstable because
> the definition of empty entry is a bit unstable, it
> depends on empty lines and how they are treated.
>
> An alternative would be to activate this special feature only
> immediately
> after starting a new entry, either by looking at last-command, or,
> maybe better,
> by doing this in entries which only have the stars and maybe a TODO
> keyword, but
> but no text yet.
>
> Then, TAB could even walk you through a number of indentations, like
> child,
> and then parent, grandparent,..., all the way to top level, and then
> back
> to the initial level.
This actually does work now, both in empty headlines, and in empty
plain list items.
I find it *very* convenient.
>
> - Carsten
>
>>
>> This also works for regular lists.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
- Carsten
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-17 0:59 Making TAB a touch more magical John Wiegley
2009-10-17 6:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-02 13:18 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-02 19:56 ` Samuel Wales
2009-11-03 5:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-03 9:39 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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