Re: Electric insert of headline stars

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Oct 25, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Piotr Zielinski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here's a small piece of elisp code that might be useful to some of  
> you.
> Pressing '*' now inserts '*' as before, but if there are only spaces
> between the beginning of the current line and the point, then all of
> them are converted to stars.  Useful for inserting new headlines.
>
> Longer explanaition: assume you have the following structure:
>
> * first level headline
> _* second level headline
> __* third level headline
>
> (_ denotes an invisible star) Since stars are invisible, I often find
> myself trying to create a new subheadline by just inserting a single
> star
>
> * first level headline
> _* second level headline
> __* third level headline
>    *
>
> which of course doesn't normally work, hence this elisp code.


hmm, intresting.

>
> (defun local-org-insert-stars ()
>   (interactive)
>   (when (looking-back "^ *" (point-at-bol))
>     (replace-string " " "*" nil (point-at-bol) (point)))
>   (insert "*"))

like this it will break table alignment.  it is better to use

(org-self-insert-command 1)

     instead of

(insert "*")


- Carsten

>
> (define-key org-mode-map "*" 'local-org-insert-stars)
>
> Haven't thoroughly tested it, but it seems to work ok.
>
> Piotr
>
>
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