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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: proposal to separate org-special-ctrl-a/e into two variables
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:39:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A0C65D1-908B-4DC4-B05D-0EDA0664841E@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890902220538o101ceb45gaa421c45a988f74f@mail.gmail.com>


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Hi Alan,

your arguments make sense, and I have implemented this.

To have separate values, set org-special-ctrl-a/e to a cons
cell with the setting for C-a in the car and the setting for
C-e in the cdr.

- Carsten

On Feb 22, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> I have found the behavior of the cursor at the beginning of the line  
> to be clumsy, and troublesome.  I cannot easily set a region, for  
> example.
>
> However, the special setting of ctrl-e is extremely useful.
>
> A single variable controls these two variables, in a unified way.   
> This variable also has two aliases.  The aliases are not recognized  
> by the functions that are affected by these variables in org.el: org- 
> beginning-of-line, and org-end-of-line.  As far as I can see, there  
> seems no reason to keep these two aliased variables as references to  
> a single unified variable, insofar as the underlying code is  
> concerned.
>
> Because, at least for me, the behaviors have sufficiently distinct  
> behaviors, I propose these should be separated.
>
> I am unable to code lisp to the level of skill necessary to do the  
> work myself.  At some point, I would be willing to work on this as a  
> "first off" hack.  I cannot do so at present due to work obligations.
>
> Alan
>
> -- 
> Alan Davis
>
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-22 13:38 proposal to separate org-special-ctrl-a/e into two variables Alan E. Davis
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