Re: Questions about creating new nodes (headings)

[Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>]

David Frascone <dave@frascone.com> writes:

> Here are two questions (or maybe one question, and a bug report) from
> my note taking while reading the manual.
>
> ***** Best way to make next menu item?  M-Enter seems to work pretty
> well.
> I'm not to happy with the way org-mode adds a blank line after a block
> of text when doing C-S-RET from the entry line, and M-RET from the
> block of text.  Do most of you have a blank line after your text
> blocks, but before the next entry?  And, I just noticed that it
> doesn't ALWAYS add the blank line . . . tres strange.  The blank lines
> seem
> to have some correlation with having other blank lines after higher
> nodes.
> It is VERY strange behavior . . so far, unpredictable to me :)

See the docstring for org-blank-before-new-entry:
  - i.e.,  "C-h v org-blank-before-new-entry"

If you never want a blank line, the simplest setting is:
(setq org-blank-before-new-entry nil)

> ***** C-<RET> does not seem to do what the info page suggests.
> It seems to go into a column selection mode.  Which, by itself, is
> very useful, and I'll have to remember that.   I can't seem to find
> the C-<RET> behavior anywhere (jump over the body, and add a new
> heading at the same level. C-S-<RET> Does do what it is supposed to,
> so, I guess a good workaround is C-S-<RET>, then backspace over the
> TODO.

I cannot reproduce this behavior. C-RET correctly creates a new headline
beneath the current entry.

Best,
Matt