From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Bug: Problems with missing newline on last line of narrowd subtree [6.33trans (release_6.33f.129.g904a)] Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:55:11 +0100 Message-ID: <3C141607-5EDF-4766-8178-3EB4231A69B9@gmail.com> References: <87fx79gwe9.wl%maus.david@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NRnOz-0003Qu-BA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:55:21 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NRnOt-0003QK-RA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:55:20 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42962 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NRnOt-0003QH-LV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:55:15 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com ([209.85.219.224]:50215) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NRnOt-0006Gk-8T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:55:15 -0500 Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so17984734ewy.26 for ; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:55:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87fx79gwe9.wl%maus.david@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Maus Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi David, On Dec 17, 2009, at 9:47 PM, David Maus wrote: > > Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and > what in fact did happen. You don't know how to make a good report? > See > > http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback > > Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > If you narrow the buffer to a subtree, insert some content and widen > again the content below the subtree moves into the subtree if there > was no newline on the last line of the narrowed subtree. > > example.org > ,---- > | * Headline 1 > | > | * Headline 2 > `---- > > Narrow the buffer to "Headline 1", entere some text and remove all > empty lines below the entered text. > > example.org (narrowd) > ,---- > | * Headline 1 > | Hello World! > `---- > > example.org (widened again) > ,---- > | * Headline 1 > | Hello World!* Headline 2 > `---- > > I do know that this behaviour makes absolutely sense as removing the > newlines in the narrowed subtree equals to removing the newlines in > the whole buffer. > > But as you can imagine this behaviour can be disastrous in Orgmode: I > stumpled upon this just because I remembered to have a todo item on my > list but Orgmode didn't know about it -- it was sucked into > another item. > > Maybe Orgmode should use a function `org-widen' that ensures a newline > at the end of a narrowed buffer before calling the Emacs' `widen'. That does make sense if the narrowing was done by org-narrow-to-subtree. But if it was done by another command, maybe even narrowing to part of a line, than adding a newline can be equally destrucive. I don't think there is a "good" solution to this issue. Regards - Carsten > > Regards, > > -- David > > > Emacs : GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.3) > of 2009-11-28 on elegiac, modified by Debian > Package: Org-mode version 6.33trans (release_6.33f.129.g904a) > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode - Carsten