Re: org-yank improvement?

[Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>]

Hi François,

pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
>
>> [...] so what I usually do is position the cursor at
>> the beginning of the /next/ heading and yank the list item there.   [...]
>> However, by mistake, it happens that the cursor is on the only visible
>> bullet star of the next heading (I'm using org-indent-mode
>> instead of really being at the start of the line.
>
>> It never really make sense, in my opinion, to yank in the middle of an
>> invisible string.  Luckily enough, yanking is done through a special
>> org-yank function, so it is at least theoretically possible to prevent
>> this.  My suggestion would be that whenever yanking into a start string,
>> that the yanking really occurs at the beginning of it.
>
> While revising old email, I'm stumbling on this, and just got a small
> idea.  I do not know if it would work.  While playing with the
> visibility of the stars, maybe that the text between the beginning of
> the line up to the last and only visible star in a header could be given
> the "intangible" attribute.  I did not play with this in a very long
> while, but if I remember well, this would prevent inserting in the
> middle of this region.

If you play with this idea, make sure basic commands like `org-demote'
are still working.

-- 
 Bastien