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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: "Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A couple of suggestions
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:28:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aaj8472o.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik_XChPKFdGzesQ4FEGGNBZqPxhfO3+fnB7d1-=@mail.gmail.com> (Filippo A. Salustri's message of "Sun, 9 Jan 2011 18:49:21 -0500")

"Filippo A. Salustri" <salustri@ryerson.ca> writes:
>
> 2. A vi-esque data entry mode
> No offence, but I've always found emacs-y key bindings to be incredibly
> unintuitive compared to, say, vi/vim.
> The idea would be to rebind all keys on top of something like, but not
> necessarily identical to, vi-mode.
> I find that there are two "thinking styles" when I'm using org-mode:
> organizing and gathering.  When "gathering," I'm mostly in emacs mode
> cuz it's mostly entering data with little editing except for
> corrections to spelling etc.  When "organizing," I'm doing little data
> entry, and mostly moving stuff around, adding dates, changing task
> status etc.
> In organizing mode, it's a pain for me to do the Cu-Cc-Cwhatever thing,
> so I think it could be useful to people to have a choice of having a
> simpler keystroke set available.

Have you checked out the speed keys feature?

(info "(org) Speed keys")

Best,
Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-09 23:49 A couple of suggestions Filippo A. Salustri
2011-01-11  0:28 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2011-01-11  2:19   ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-02-11 11:48 ` Bastien
2011-02-11 12:12   ` Filippo A. Salustri

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