From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Lundin Subject: Re: Questions about creating new nodes (headings) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:03:27 -0400 Message-ID: <87aasnwdio.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O7DMf-0005mm-SO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:56:09 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36315 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O7DMd-0005ec-4u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:56:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7DMV-0003XO-OT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:56:01 -0400 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:50693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7DMV-0003XC-Jp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:55:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Frascone's message of "Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:41:28 -0600") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Frascone Cc: emacs-orgmode David Frascone 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?=C2=A0 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.=C2=A0 Do most of you have a blank line after your text > blocks, but before the next entry?=C2=A0 And, I just noticed that it > doesn't ALWAYS add the blank line . . . tres strange.=C2=A0 The blank lin= es > 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- does not seem to do what the info page suggests. > It seems to go into a column selection mode.=C2=A0 Which, by itself, is > very useful, and I'll have to remember that.=C2=A0=C2=A0 I can't seem to = find > the C- behavior anywhere (jump over the body, and add a new > heading at the same level. C-S- Does do what it is supposed to, > so, I guess a good workaround is C-S-, then backspace over the > TODO. I cannot reproduce this behavior. C-RET correctly creates a new headline beneath the current entry. Best, Matt