[Feature Request] [ENTER] or [C-Alt ENTER] while on headline skip over drawers automatically

[Feature Request] [ENTER] or [C-Alt ENTER] while on headline skip over drawers automatically

[Subhan Michael Tindall]

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I use drawers a lot, some of which are set up by hooks when I'm entering headlines (most notably TODO keywords)
Given the new syntax that requires no text between drawers & headlines (if I'm recalling that correctly), I think it would be very usefull to have either [ENTER] (bound to org-return)(C-Alt ENTER is an alternate keybinding possibility) move point to start of line FOLLOWING any drawers, DEADLINE, or SCHEDULE lines, like this:

,** TODO this is a new headline[ENTER]
,<point is now here, potentially breaking syntax>
,:PROPERTIES:
,:MyProps: value
,:END:

,** TODO this is a new headline[ENTER]
,<point is now here, potentially breaking syntax>
,:PROPERTIES:
,:MyProps: value
,:END:
,<point should may be here, maintaining syntax>

Complication:
,** TODO this is a new headline[ENTER]
,:PROPERTIES:
,:MyProps: value
,:END:
,Is this text allowed here under new drawers syntax?
,:TIMELOGS:
,  CLOCK: [2015-04-08 Wed 08:05]--[2015-04-08 Wed 09:18] =>  1:13
,:END:
,<point should may be here, maintaining syntax>

In above scenario, if drawers are allowed to be separated by text, [ENTER] should move point to following first drawer


Summary: [ENTER] on a headline line should move point to the next valid line for entering general text in order to preserve correct drawer syntax



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Re: [Feature Request] [ENTER] or [C-Alt ENTER] while on headline skip over drawers automatically

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-04-09, at 18:16, Subhan Michael Tindall <SubhanT@familycareinc.org> wrote:

> Summary: [ENTER] on a headline line should move point to the next valid line for entering general text in order to preserve correct drawer syntax

+1

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

Re: [Feature Request] [ENTER] or [C-Alt ENTER] while on headline skip over drawers automatically

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Subhan Michael Tindall <SubhanT@familycareinc.org> writes:

> I use drawers a lot, some of which are set up by hooks when I'm entering headlines (most notably TODO keywords)
> Given the new syntax that requires no text between drawers & headlines
> (if I'm recalling that correctly),

For correctness, it only affects properties drawers.

> I think it would be very usefull to
> have either [ENTER] (bound to org-return)(C-Alt ENTER is an alternate
> keybinding possibility) move point to start of line FOLLOWING any
> drawers, DEADLINE, or SCHEDULE lines, like this:

There is already a function for that : `org-end-of-meta-data'. The
problem is the binding.

I don't think it should be the default for RET, but we could introduce
a variable, e.g., `org-special-RET', much like, e.g.,
`org-special-ctrl-a/e'.

However, there's already `org-return-follows-link'. It might be
confusing to keep both, so we could try to merge these features.

Another option is to define a new speed command, but there are not much
bindings left (at least "x", "y", "z" and special characters, e.g. ".").

Eventually, we could introduce a `org-return-hook' where an user could
add, e.g.,

  (lambda () (when (org-at-heading-p) (org-end-of-meta-data) (insert
  "\n")))

Opinions?

> Complication:
> ,** TODO this is a new headline[ENTER]
> ,:PROPERTIES:
> ,:MyProps: value
> ,:END:
> ,Is this text allowed here under new drawers syntax?

Yes.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: [Feature Request] [ENTER] or [C-Alt ENTER] while on headline skip over drawers automatically

[Rasmus]

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Eventually, we could introduce a `org-return-hook' where an user could
> add, e.g.,
>
>   (lambda () (when (org-at-heading-p) (org-end-of-meta-data) (insert
>   "\n")))
>
> Opinions?

+1.

I'd also like a hook on C-RET.


-- 
Not everything that goes around comes back around, you know

Re: [Feature Request] [ENTER] or [C-Alt ENTER] while on headline skip over drawers automatically

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
>> Eventually, we could introduce a `org-return-hook' where an user could
>> add, e.g.,
>>
>>   (lambda () (when (org-at-heading-p) (org-end-of-meta-data) (insert
>>   "\n")))
>>
>> Opinions?
>
> +1.
>
> I'd also like a hook on C-RET.

Actually, a hook isn't even needed if you use `advice-add'.


Regards,

Re: [Feature Request] [ENTER] or [C-Alt ENTER] while on headline skip over drawers automatically

[Rasmus]

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>
>> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Eventually, we could introduce a `org-return-hook' where an user could
>>> add, e.g.,
>>>
>>>   (lambda () (when (org-at-heading-p) (org-end-of-meta-data) (insert
>>>   "\n")))
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>>
>> +1.
>>
>> I'd also like a hook on C-RET.
>
> Actually, a hook isn't even needed if you use `advice-add'.

There's also org-metareturn-hook.

I had a patch a while ago adding support for M-RET on keywords.  This
could be pushed together with a documentation on how to use it with
add-function (is nadvice.el too new for us to assume when writing
documentation?) or the mentioned hook.

—Rasmus

-- 
However beautiful the theory, you should occasionally look at the evidence

Re: [Feature Request] [ENTER] or [C-Alt ENTER] while on headline skip over drawers automatically

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> I had a patch a while ago adding support for M-RET on keywords.  This
> could be pushed together with a documentation on how to use it with
> add-function (is nadvice.el too new for us to assume when writing
> documentation?) or the mentioned hook.

We still have to think about how to dispatch commands between M-RET and
C-RET.

Regards,