From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rasmus Subject: Re: A Microsoftesque detail in org Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 23:15:07 +0200 Message-ID: <874mnaykh0.fsf@gmx.us> References: <87382yji8z.fsf@iki.fi> <87lhgqxeq0.fsf@gmx.us> <87k2w754vk.fsf@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yu5uv-0005dX-HY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2015 17:16:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yu5us-00015C-AK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2015 17:16:13 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yu5us-00014a-3O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2015 17:16:10 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yu5up-0002WH-NL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2015 23:16:07 +0200 Received: from 71.red-88-19-189.staticip.rima-tde.net ([88.19.189.71]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 23:16:07 +0200 Received: from rasmus by 71.red-88-19-189.staticip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 23:16:07 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Jarmo, Jarmo Hurri writes: > Rasmus writes: >> With your behavior you can (i) break the TODO tag; (ii) break the cookie; >> (iii) break the tag. At least (i) and (ii) are quite destructive. > > I am not sure what you mean, since a single undo will always heal the > line again, regardless of where you break it. Sure. But that seems orthogonal to the problem at hand. Re (i): Assume TODO is keyword. We don't know that TO is. Re (ii): [#B] is a cookie. [#B is not. (iii) iii :tag: is a tag :ta is not. The editor should not easily produce invalid syntax. In any case it's very easy to rebind keys in a hook. If you write a org.texi patch on how to get purist keybindings we can add it. > I am a BIG fan of the Org mode slogan "Your life in plain text." The > power of plain text has been demonstrated over and over again. You can > run text manipulating commands on it, you can process it with a large > array of different programming languages. Nobody is disputing that. > An undo is a basic text editing feature that everyone should > know. Reassigning non-standard behaviour to the return key is - in my > opinion - against the ideology. I see that you use Gnus. Did you by any change use RET to open the article? It's bound to gnus-summary-scroll-up. In Emacs25, or maybe even before, RET in at least lisp mode started to indent automatically via electric-indent-mode. Are you against this? What I will agree on is that it would be better if Org used more "standard" mechanism and e.g. cleverly hooked newline. However, Org targets a number of versions of Emacs (ATM: 23-25), making this hard. >> The attached patch re-enables breaks in region four of >> org-complex-heading-regexp, i.e. from the cookie up to tags. A quick >> test suggests it works nicely. >> >> WDYT? > > Given enough time, I could come up with a situation where I would run a > keyboard macro in which I would expect the return key to break the line, > regardless of where I was on that line (in a tag or whatever). In that case there's C-o C-e or M-x newline... > I am a very minor player in this game, but I would really, _really_ like > Org to remain as true to it's slogan as possible. I'm still don't see this point. There's Org, "the format", which should ideally be easy to use in any editor (I wrote a basic syntax parser for texworks). It's plaintext. Then there's org-mode, the principal editor of Org. It supposed to be a nice environment for composing text. —Rasmus -- This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put