Inline notes and alignment

Inline notes and alignment

[Sven Bretfeld]

Hi everybody

Since some months ago the body of inline notes is no longer
automatically aligned correctly. This is what is expected:

*********************** Header
                        - cursor goes here
*********************** END

This is what happens instead:

*********************** Header
- cursor goes here
*********************** END

If I align the text body manually with whitespaces, is gets correctly
aligned for further text or list items produced with M-RET. But this is
annoying.

I don't know if I changed any configuration or if it came with an
update. Until half a year ago, the cursor was correctly placed below the
header immediately after producing an inline note with C-c C-x t.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Sven

Re: Inline notes and alignment

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@ntnu.no> writes:

> Since some months ago the body of inline notes is no longer
> automatically aligned correctly. This is what is expected:
>
> *********************** Header
>                         - cursor goes here
> *********************** END
>
> This is what happens instead:
>
> *********************** Header
> - cursor goes here
> *********************** END
>
> If I align the text body manually with whitespaces, is gets correctly
> aligned for further text or list items produced with M-RET. But this is
> annoying.
>
> I don't know if I changed any configuration or if it came with an
> update. Until half a year ago, the cursor was correctly placed below the
> header immediately after producing an inline note with C-c C-x t.
>
> Any ideas?

I changed the indentation rule a while ago (could be years), so it is
aligned "correctly" albeit differently. IIRC the main motivations were :
too much wasted space on the left, and a slower "org-indent.el".

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: Inline notes and alignment

[Sven Bretfeld]

Nicolas Goaziou writes:

> Hello,
>
> Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@ntnu.no> writes:
>
>> Since some months ago the body of inline notes is no longer
>> automatically aligned correctly. This is what is expected:
>>
>> *********************** Header
>>                         - cursor goes here
>> *********************** END
>>
>> This is what happens instead:
>>
>> *********************** Header
>> - cursor goes here
>> *********************** END
>>
> I changed the indentation rule a while ago (could be years), so it is
> aligned "correctly" albeit differently. IIRC the main motivations were :
> too much wasted space on the left, and a slower "org-indent.el".

Ah, ok I see. Thank you for the reply. Is there any easy way to return
to the old rules? With a wide-screen monitor and Emacs permanently in
fullscreen I don't care about waste of left space. 

Cheers,

Sven

-- 
Sven Bretfeld
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
NTNU Trondheim

Re: Inline notes and alignment

[George Kettleborough]

On 22/03/17 15:08, Sven Bretfeld wrote:
> Ah, ok I see. Thank you for the reply. Is there any easy way to return
> to the old rules? With a wide-screen monitor and Emacs permanently in
> fullscreen I don't care about waste of left space.

Have you considered using org-indent-mode? I used to encode the 
indentation in my files too before I discovered that indent mode which 
lets you easily switch the indentation on and off for the entire buffer 
and is just generally easier to use (imo).

George.

Re: Inline notes and alignment

[Sven Bretfeld]

George Kettleborough writes:

> Have you considered using org-indent-mode? I used to encode the 
> indentation in my files too before I discovered that indent mode which 
> lets you easily switch the indentation on and off for the entire buffer 
> and is just generally easier to use (imo).

That's a pretty good idea. I will try org-indent-mode. Wasn't aware of
it. Thank you, everybody.

Sven

-- 
Sven Bretfeld
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
NTNU Trondheim

Re: Inline notes and alignment

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Friday, 24 Mar 2017 at 09:53, Sven Bretfeld wrote:

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> That's a pretty good idea. I will try org-indent-mode. Wasn't aware of
> it. Thank you, everybody.

And org-indent-mode works best, in my opinion, with visual-line-mode.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 26.0.50, Org release_9.0.5-385-g72fc2d

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Re: Inline notes and alignment

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@ntnu.no> writes:

> Ah, ok I see. Thank you for the reply. Is there any easy way to return
> to the old rules?

I don't think so. You can, however, advise `org-indent-line' or set
a different `indent-line-function' in Org buffers.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: Inline notes and alignment

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Wednesday, 22 Mar 2017 at 15:08, Sven Bretfeld wrote:

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> Ah, ok I see. Thank you for the reply. Is there any easy way to return
> to the old rules? With a wide-screen monitor and Emacs permanently in
> fullscreen I don't care about waste of left space. 

Slightly OT but wasted space is still potentially a waste.

Initially, I didn't like these wide screen monitors as it seemed that I
was wasting a lot of space (and, yes, it doesn't then matter if space is
consumed by indentation).  However, I have since rediscovered
*follow-mode* which allows for a single buffer to flow across two
side-by-side windows.  Excellent for long documents/codes!

Just thought I'd point this feature out as there is always something to
learn in emacs!  Even after >30 years...

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 26.0.50, Org release_9.0.5-363-gc41c2b

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Re: Inline notes and alignment

[Adam Porter]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> However, I have since rediscovered *follow-mode* which allows for a
> single buffer to flow across two side-by-side windows.  Excellent for
> long documents/codes!

Thanks for sharing that!

> Just thought I'd point this feature out as there is always something
> to learn in emacs!  Even after >30 years...

How true.  :)