Re: possible bug: TAB after elipsis

From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: possible bug: TAB after elipsis
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:26:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aattibwv.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a037f7361003271302x221c630cydf9475172d03b0a3@mail.gmail.com> (John Hendy's message of "Sat\, 27 Mar 2010 14\:02\:55 -0600")

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> Very cool and good point about unfolding. I've basically been doing the same things.
>
> Thanks for the speed keys link, especially. I've just got to sit down and read the whole manual some weekend... there's so much and since I am usually searching under 'problem-based' motivation, there's
> so many helpful things I might never find that way!
>
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>     John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>    
>     > This awesome. If this equivalent existed for M-a/e and M-f/b, I would
>     > be very happy with the result. Seem reasonable -- when on a folded
>     > headline, I just can't think of a reason someone would want to
>     > interact with the headline after the ellipsis. It even, as someone
>     > else mentioned, can ge one into trouble -- press the wrong key or
>     > delete after it and you're removing text you can't even see... but are
>     > able to interact with!
>    
>     Well, after all, its just "Plain Text" you are editing.
>     Whenever there is an Elipsis, there is a convenient "hack" in the
>     display hiding what you don't want to see, but it is never the less a
>     hack. So I got into the habbit that, whenever I edit a line that
>     contains "...", I unfold it first; whenever it is folded, I only
>     a ) view it or
>     b) navigate with the org commands like the speed keys
>       (http://orgmode.org/manual/Speed-keys.html) or
>     c) use the org structure editing command
>     (http://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-editing.html).
>    
>     For extensive editing with emacs board tools, there is always
>     "M-x show-all".
>    
>     So, I agree, whenever there are ellipsis, editing "it ... can
>     get one into trouble". So I just don't ;).
>    
>     hth
>     Memnon
>
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