What are RET and C-j bound to?

In my setup, RET is bound to =org-return=, which does not delete spaces, but C-j is bound to =org-return-and-maybe-indent=, which does. So I have the opposite behavior as yours.

There were some recent changes in behavior of Org with respect to electric-indent-mode (long discussion in the list), I think this might have something to do with it but did not follow the full discussion.

Hope this helps,

--Diego

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:38 PM Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> wrote:

On 2020-11-30 Mon 19:25, Diego Zamboni wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Could it be that the space is being deleted not when you press RET but
> when you save the file? I don't see any space deletion when entering an
> empty headline, but in my config, whitespace at end of lines is deleted
> on save. In Doom Emacs this is enabled by default, and even before I was
> using =delete-trailing-whitespace= as part of my =before-save-hook=.
> --Diego

The space is deleted immediately. But the fact that it’s not happening on your system perhaps means that there *is* a setting that prevents it. The question is: which?

By the way, I’m using the master branch from https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git as installed by straight.el.

Titus