Hi Jarmo,

Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi> writes:

> I was just amazed by the following detail in org. In the example below,
> if my cursor is anywhere inside the word "Example", and I press Enter, a
> new line will be inserted below, and the cursor will jump to the next
> line. The location of the cursor inside the heading line is ignored, and
> the heading line will not be broken.
>
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
> * Example
>   Some text.
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This immediately reminded me of Microsoft products, where the software
> tries to be too intelligent, thus making it harder for the user. In this
> case, I needed to figure out that Ctrl-o is needed to break the line.
>
> I would suggest that the original interpretation of Enter would not be
> messed with. Messing with Alt-Enter and such is fine, but Enter, please
> no.

I disagree.  Consider the more complete example:

* TODO [#A] foo bar        :tag:

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, for
one, would hate to have to readjust my tags every time I break a headline.
Call me spoiled by MS if you like and if you think it's relevant.

Yet, not being able to break between foo and bar is quite annoying.

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?

—Rasmus

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