Re: org-insert-heading rewritten from scratch

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

On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I am still not clear about this.  In your earlier mail you made this example:
>> 
>>> Well same as above: I think it eats blank lines where it shouldn't. It
>>> the following cases:
>>> 
>>> * H1
>>> 
>>> ** H2
>>> 
>>>    H
>>> X
>>> 
>>> and
>>> 
>>> * H1
>>> 
>>> * H2
>>> 
>>>   H
>>> 
>>> X  
>>> 
>>> I don't think there's any reason for M-RET to eat blank line before
>>> point with either `org-blank-before-new-entry' set to `auto' or t. It
>>> should know that a blank line is expected before the new entry and
>>> therefore should create the headline at point.
>> 
>> WIth `auto', there will be an empty line before the next entry in both
>> cases. In both cases it looks at the H2 headline and sees the empty
>> line before it. Are you saying the behaviour should be different in
>> both cases?
> 
> Yes, it should.
> 
> As you point out, in both cases the algorithm knows that there should be
> a blank line before the new entry (with the assumption that behaviour is
> set to `auto'). In the first case, if it inserts the headline at point,
> there will be none, so it has to add one. In the second case, there is
> no need to add one since creating it at point will fulfill the
> requirement (which is "a blank line before new headline").

Yes.  But you agree that the *result* should be the same, i.e. that there will
be an empty line before the newly inserted headline.

I think/hope we do agree now.

> 
> Re-reading myself, I agree that my quoted explanations are a bit
> confusing. I hope this should clarify my point.

I think so.

Thank you for your patience.

- Carsten