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From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A Microsoftesque detail in org
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 11:57:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mw16w4cy.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87382yji8z.fsf@iki.fi> (Jarmo Hurri's message of "Fri, 15 May 2015 12:35:24 +0300")

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

> Greetings.
>
> 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.

I was struggling with this as well until I somehow worked around this -
fortunately I did not need this to often.

>
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
> * 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.

Thanks - did not know this.

>
> 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 agree - Return should be return - unless e.g. a "smart return" is
enabled in the settings. I would definitely dis-able this.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Or?
>
> Jarmo
>
>

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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-15  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-15  9:35 A Microsoftesque detail in org Jarmo Hurri
2015-05-15  9:57 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2015-05-15 11:16 ` Doug Lewan
2015-05-15 11:27 ` Rasmus
2015-05-16  8:05   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-16 15:28     ` Rasmus
2015-05-16 17:26       ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-05-16 19:00         ` Rasmus
2015-05-16 21:43           ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-05-17 13:25         ` Rasmus
2015-05-17 20:24   ` Jarmo Hurri
2015-05-17 21:15     ` Rasmus
2015-05-18  0:39       ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-05-18  3:40         ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-05-18 12:15         ` Jarmo Hurri
2015-05-18  8:33       ` Brett Witty
2015-05-18  9:02         ` Rainer M Krug
2015-05-18  9:48           ` Rasmus
2015-05-18 11:29             ` Rainer M Krug
2015-05-18 13:07         ` William Denton
2015-05-18 14:37         ` Suvayu Ali
2015-05-18 15:39           ` Rasmus
2015-05-19  9:39             ` Suvayu Ali
2015-05-20 23:04   ` Rasmus
2015-05-15 19:29 ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-05-15 20:27   ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-05-16  3:43     ` Bob Newell

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