* Making TAB a touch more magical
@ 2009-10-17 0:59 John Wiegley
2009-10-17 6:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-02 13:18 ` Carsten Dominik
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: John Wiegley @ 2009-10-17 0:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org-mode Mode
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)
This also works for regular lists.
John
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Making TAB a touch more magical 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 1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-10-17 6:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: John Wiegley; +Cc: Org-mode Mode 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) If going this crazy, how about (extension for plain list still missing) (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) (if (equal this-command last-command) (condition-case nil (org-promote-subtree) (error (save-excursion (goto-char (point-at-bol)) (and (looking-at "\\*+") (replace-match "")) (org-insert-heading) (org-demote-subtree)))) (org-demote-subtree)))))) (add-hook 'org-pre-cycle-hook 'org-indent-empty-items) - carsten > > This also works for regular lists. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode - Carsten ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Making TAB a touch more magical 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 9:39 ` Carsten Dominik 1 sibling, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-11-02 13:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: John Wiegley; +Cc: Org-mode Mode 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. - Carsten > > This also works for regular lists. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode - Carsten ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Making TAB a touch more magical 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 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Samuel Wales @ 2009-11-02 19:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: Org-mode Mode On 2009-11-02, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. I proposed something similar recently, with some detail. Will search for it if you don't remember it. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Making TAB a touch more magical 2009-11-02 19:56 ` Samuel Wales @ 2009-11-03 5:29 ` Carsten Dominik 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-11-03 5:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Samuel Wales; +Cc: Org-mode Mode I do remember it, it is wating in my queue, and my reply to John was inspired by it. - Carsten On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Samuel Wales wrote: > On 2009-11-02, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > I proposed something similar recently, with some detail. Will search > for it if you don't remember it. - Carsten ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Making TAB a touch more magical 2009-11-02 13:18 ` Carsten Dominik 2009-11-02 19:56 ` Samuel Wales @ 2009-11-03 9:39 ` Carsten Dominik 1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-11-03 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: Org-mode Mode 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > - Carsten > > > - Carsten ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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