Re: Feature suggestion: context sensitive movement

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: context sensitive movement
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:17:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62CD457A-F0C3-4BDB-B6FA-CD707C2D43AF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20524da70906181254y5fc43f9dh564f8aa0fe3c6a59@mail.gmail.com>

On Jun 18, 2009, at 9:54 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> Others have pointed out the relevant commands.  Here are some possible
> bindings for you.
>
> What I do is bind c-m-arrow, analogous to the way I bind them in Lisp.
> Maybe you will find those bindings useful.  The relevant insight is
> trees -- both Lisp and outlines instantiate them.
>
> Would be great if they worked on plain list items also, as if those
> items were headlines.
>
> Are there any functions to navigate plain lists?

org-beginning-of-item
org-end-of-item
org-next-item
org-previous-item
org-beginning-of-item-list

You could make you bindings below work for lists as well by checking  
context with

org-at-item-p    ;; first line only
org-in-item-p    ;; does not have to be first line
org-at-heading-p

HTH

- Carsten

>
>  (define-key org-mode-map [(control meta left)]
>    'outline-backward-same-level)
>  (define-key org-mode-map [(control meta right)]
>    'outline-forward-same-level)
>  (define-key org-mode-map [(control meta up)]
>    'outline-previous-visible-heading)
>  (define-key org-mode-map [(control meta down)]
>    'outline-next-visible-heading)
>  ;;in gnu lisp, there is no separate up as i have.  ud change  
> level.  lr go
>  ;;back and forward at the same level.  sounds simple in principle.
>  ;;however, that makes it hard to go to the previous visible heading  
> (or
>  ;;last element of prev list in lisp): you have to do up, left,  
> down, right
>  ;;repeat.
>  ;;
>  ;;upshot: my way is intuitive.  ud goes ud, lr goes same level, ret
>  ;;goes up.
>  (define-key org-mode-map [(control meta return)]
>    ;;'invisible-ok
>    'outline-up-heading)
>
>
> On 2009-06-18, Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was just thinking that often I want to jump around items in org- 
>> mode
>> more quickly than I do at present, depending on the context of the
>> point.
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> * Foo
>> blah blah blah
>> * Bar |
>> blah blah blah
>> * Baz
>>
>> Assuming the point is located at | I might want to quickly jump to
>> previous headings by pushing CTRL-<up>/<down>.
>>
>> Having this also occur when the point is located within a list would
>> be nice too.
>>
>> Does anyone else think this is a good idea?  Or is this another
>> feature which is already implemented, that I'm not aware of? :-)
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> R.
>>
>>
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