From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-yank improvement?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:31:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86hawr5a1v.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762ekiehm.fsf@mean.albasani.net> (Memnon Anon's message of "Sun, 4 Mar 2012 15:30:17 +0000 (UTC)")
Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> writes:
> pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
>> I often cut a list item (or a hierarchy of list items) to reinsert it
>> into another heading which I know contains only list items. All the
>> headings are collapsed, so what I usually do is position the cursor at
>> the beginning of the /next/ heading and yank the list item there, this
>> has the effect of inserting it at the end of the previous heading, no
>> need to open it.
> Mhh, why don't you just insert a newline above the next heading and yank
> then?
Hi, Memnon :-).
Because it would induce a spurious white line.
>> However, by mistake, it happens that the cursor is on the only visible
>> bullet star of the next heading instead of really being at the start
>> of the line.
> I wonder how you end up "between two stars" in the first place...
Usually through Emacs C-n.
>> Of course, it is my error. Yet, Org mode could be friendlier, here!
> Lets say 'safer'.
Safer *is* friendlier :-).
> But while "..." indicating folded content at the end
> of a line is an integral part of org, things like org-hide-leading-stars
> seemed to me always to be purely cosmetic. Nice to have, but if one
> really edits org files by hand (it is all plain text, right),
> potentially a problem.
Agreed that it's all plain text. Yet, this is Emacs, and Org mode is
a very powerful mode, from which people may expect a lot.
François
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-04 12:47 org-yank improvement? François Pinard
2012-03-04 14:26 ` François Pinard
2012-03-04 15:30 ` Memnon Anon
2012-03-04 15:45 ` Thorsten
2012-04-11 6:38 ` Bastien
2012-04-11 7:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2012-04-11 11:50 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-04-11 12:59 ` Bastien
2012-04-12 14:02 ` Thorsten
2012-04-12 14:28 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-04-12 16:59 ` Thorsten
2012-04-12 13:56 ` Thorsten
2012-03-04 16:23 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-03-04 16:41 ` Memnon Anon
2012-03-04 18:41 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-04-11 1:31 ` François Pinard [this message]
2012-04-11 1:43 ` François Pinard
2012-04-11 6:33 ` Bastien
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