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From: Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Minor footnote suggestion
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:25:12 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq0r3fxj.fsf@breezy.my.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txq4gu7t.fsf@gmail.com>


Nicolas Goaziou writes:

> Hello,
>
> Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When positioned in footnote text, the function jumps back *to the
>> beginning* of the footnote reference. It would be more convenient to
>> jump to the end of the reference since that is where the author is
>> likely to pick up typing the text.
>
> It was done this way because, if point at the end of the reference, you
> cannot use C-c C-c another time to jump back to the definition.
>
> Also, if the buffer ends with the footnote reference, there is no such
> place. So, sometimes, you will move after the reference, and other
> times, it will be on its last character.
>
> I'm not sure which behaviour is the less annoying.
>
>
> Regards,

OK, I can see that. For my own use, the suggested behaviour would be
better and the two situations you mention would only be a very
occasional annoyance. The current behaviour has annoyed me 250 times so
far in the one document :-).

But I see your point -- it would be a compromise either way.

Thanks for the answer.

Cheers,
Alan



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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-25 23:49 Minor footnote suggestion Alan L Tyree
2013-01-26  9:38 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-01-26 19:25   ` Alan L Tyree [this message]

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