Thanks!
 
Finally got myself to write a little lisp to solve my problem and mapped it to go

For what it's worth, here it is (but it solves a very specific problem):

  (defun guivho-insert-topic-under-heading()
    "Expand heading and insert hyphen and inactive timestamp.
      Cursor is expected to be in an org header line"
    (interactive)
    (let ((sp " ")
          (hyphen "-"))
      (org-end-of-line)
      (evil-append 1)
      (org-return)
      (insert hyphen sp)
      (org-time-stamp nil t)
      (insert sp)
      (evil-force-normal-state)
      (evil-append 0)))

This now always inserts a 'dash space timestamp space' line immediately under the current org header, whether it was collapsed or not.

Hey, it's not beautiful, but it solves my problem :)

And, to whom it may concern, org and evil make a nice combo :)

Guido


On 30 March 2017 at 12:14, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> wrote:


Eric,

Care to share your org-evil mappings?

One 'conflict' which bites me every time is this:

I hit /blabla to locate a heading directly under which I want to insert a text line.

I then hit enter to acknowledge the find.

The display shows the heading line followed by its body lines (which all start with a hyphen)

I then hit o to insert a line directly under the heading and before the first existing detail line.

The result is however that the heading body closes, and that a line is added before the next header line, so under all existing detail lines of this header line.

This undesired behavior only happens if the heading was closed at the time of the find. If the find locates an open heading, hitting enter and than o behaves as expected.

Any suggestions on how this can be fixed would be most welcome :)

TIA,

Guido

On 29 March 2017 at 17:11, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 Mar 2017 at 12:57, Matt Price wrote:
> I've never used Vim but I see a lot of people online raving about evil
> mode and how much they love it. I'm considering giving it a whirl
> after the semester ends & I get some free time. I just wondered
> whether any heavy org users here on the list use evil, and if so,
> whether you see pain points within org-mode -- my setup is pretty
> heavily customized, for instance, and I wonder whether that means it
> will be quite painful to use evil.

I use evil and org all day long.  Basically, there is very little clash
between them so they co-exist very nicely.  One of the best things about
evil is that it is almost orthogonal to emacs and you can continue using
most C-x and C-c keymap bindings.

In my case, I did add a number of bindings to evil's normal and motion
keymaps to avoid typing C-c etc. as my motivation in using evil is to
avoid exacerbating my RSI.  Almost all my commands are non-chorded key
sequences.  I barely use the control, shift and meta keys in normal
use.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.1.1, Org release_9.0.5-391-g36c7cf