From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Filippo A. Salustri" Subject: Re: A couple of suggestions Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:19:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87aaj8472o.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1998608481==" Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38825 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PcTpz-0000YD-9n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:19:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcTpy-0004KO-3c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:19:55 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:63904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcTpx-0004Jv-Vd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:19:54 -0500 Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so20676677wwb.30 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:19:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87aaj8472o.fsf@fastmail.fm> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --===============1998608481== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6de17ba2384ee049988b82b --0016e6de17ba2384ee049988b82b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Oy-vay. There's always another surprise coming, ain't there. Thanks for the pointer! This could be quite useful to me. Cheers. Fil On 10 January 2011 19:28, Matt Lundin wrote: > "Filippo A. Salustri" 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 > -- Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salustri@ryerson.ca http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/ --0016e6de17ba2384ee049988b82b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oy-vay. =A0There's always another surprise coming, ain't there.Thanks for the pointer! =A0This could be quite useful to me.
Cheers.
Fil

On 10 J= anuary 2011 19:28, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
"Filippo A. Salustri= " <salustri@ryerson.ca&g= t; writes:
>
> 2. A vi-esque data entry mode
> No offence, but I've always found emacs-y key bindings to be incre= dibly
> 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 usi= ng org-mode:
> organizing and gathering. =A0When "gathering," I'm mostl= y in emacs mode
> cuz it's mostly entering data with little editing except for
> corrections to spelling etc. =A0When "organizing," I'm d= oing 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 t= hing,
> 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



--
Filippo A. Salus= tri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson Univ= ersity
350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel: 416/979-5= 000 ext 7749
Fax: 416/979-5265
Email: salustri= @ryerson.ca
http://deseng= .ryerson.ca/~fil/
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