On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:14 AM Luciano Passuello <lucianop@litemind.com>
wrote:

> Hello everybody, first message here.
>
> According to org-insert-heading documentation: "If point is at the
> beginning of a heading, insert a new heading or a new headline above
> the current one."
>
> I like this behavior very much, and in orgmode 8.x, calling
> org-insert-heading at the beginning of a line indeed creates a heading
> before the current one, even when org-insert-heading-respect-content
> is set.
>
> For orgmode 9.x, this only works when org-insert-heading-respect-content
> is nil.
> I find this annoying, because I like to have
> org-insert-heading-respect-content non-nil AND to be able to insert a
> heading before the current one.
>
> Is that by design or a bug? I couldn't find any mention to the new
> behavior in the Changes <http://orgmode.org/Changes.html> page.
>

Looks like this was an intended change:
http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=2b03e945a19701194e510791a96006c5eee9edc6

Related discussion:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2016-10/msg00080.html

PS: The commit message includes gmane.org links which are now dead. I think
we should reference lists.gnu.org links (like above) for longevity of
references.
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Kaushal Modi