From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-RET vs C-RET
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:19:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oluzjbd2e6q.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d289ihsp.fsf@gmx.us
Hi,
[ ... ]
>
>>> Here's another of my pet-griefs
>>> - a
>>> - b
>>>
>>> | → M-RET will give me an itme
>>> | → M-RET will give me a headline
>>>
>>> Why is the behavior a function of amount of whitespace/newlines to
>>> nearest element? This makes not sense to me and goes against what I
>>> want, namely act in accordance to element at point. . .
>>
>> Blank lines belong to the element at point above.
>>
>> In particular, number of blank lines is meaningful in plain lists and
>> footnote definitions (2 blank lines mark the end of the element). In
>> the first line, you're still in the list, in the next one, you're not
>> anymore, hence the behaviour.
>>
>> Think about
>>
>> - a
>>
>> - b
>
> /I/ know why it does what it does. But how about the guy who's been
> using Org for five minutes? Even knowing the technical/syntax reason, I
> do not find this to be "predictable, and meaningful"—especially in my
> initial example, less so when separating items by two lines.
Just to add to that side thread:
I too fall regularly into that and have to undo, add more newlines and hit
M-RET again. I have been using orgmode for quite some time and still
this is not 'predictable' for me.
Regards,
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-27 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-19 14:41 [Prelim. patch] extend org-meta-return to keywords Rasmus
2014-11-22 1:23 ` [patch] " Rasmus
2014-11-22 9:52 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-22 12:19 ` Rasmus Pank Roulund
2014-11-22 19:26 ` Rasmus
2014-11-22 21:57 ` Thierry Banel
2014-11-22 23:20 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-23 11:08 ` Thierry Banel
2014-11-23 16:54 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-23 17:15 ` Rasmus
2014-11-23 17:54 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-23 18:11 ` Rasmus
2014-11-23 21:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-23 21:54 ` Rasmus
2014-11-25 9:00 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-25 10:12 ` M-RET vs C-RET Sebastien Vauban
2014-11-25 11:09 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-25 11:16 ` Rasmus
2014-11-26 23:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-27 0:55 ` Rasmus
2014-11-27 9:19 ` Andreas Leha [this message]
2014-11-23 17:00 ` [patch] extend org-meta-return to keywords Rasmus
2014-11-23 17:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-11-22 13:53 ` [Prelim. patch] " Thierry Banel
2014-11-22 14:31 ` Rasmus
2014-11-22 17:09 ` Thierry Banel
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