Re: How to preserve empty headings

[Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de>]

On 2020-11-30 Mon 18:31, Berry, Charles wrote:
>> On Nov 30, 2020, at 9:21 AM, Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> wrote:
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>> When I start a new line with '* ' followed by RET, the space is automatically deleted and I’m left with a line that just has the asterisk (i.e. not a headline).
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>> Unfortunately there are use cases where empty headlines make sense and they occur often in my work.  One example is Beamer slides where each headline at some level produces a slide.  If the user needs a slide without title (common, e.g., for a large images that fill the slide), an empty headline is needed.
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>> Is there a way to teach Org to leave the empty headline intact?
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>> I may be old-fashioned but when I type '* ', I do it for a reason and I wish that my text editor respects that. :)
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> Instead of `* SPACE RET', try `* SPACE C-j'.

I’m aware of several workarounds and this one is perhaps the best.  However, I’d prefer if RET would just work as expected.  Org sometimes inserts extra material on RET which I think is okay (e.g. indentation), but is there any precedent, in Org or Emacs more broadly, for RET deleting text?  It seems very counter-intuitive to me.

  Titus