up/down in tables

up/down in tables

[Scott Otterson]

When I have the cursor in the middle of table and press the up or down 
key, the cursor moves up or down as expected, but it also goes to the 
left hand of the screen -- cumbersome when navigating wide tables, 
because you have to right-arrow back to the original column, if you can 
remember which column that was.

Is there a bugfix or a .emacs hack that would make the up/down keys keep 
the cursor in the original table column?

Thanks,

Scott

Re: up/down in tables

[Nick Dokos]

Scott Otterson <scotto@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> When I have the cursor in the middle of table and press the up or down
> key, the cursor moves up or down as expected, but it also goes to the
> left hand of the screen -- cumbersome when navigating wide tables,
> because you have to right-arrow back to the original column, if you
> can remember which column that was.
> 
> Is there a bugfix or a .emacs hack that would make the up/down keys
> keep the cursor in the original table column?
> 

I can't reproduce this on

  GNU Emacs 22.1.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.11)
  Org-mode version 5.15a

Nick

Re: up/down in tables

[Scott Otterson]

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Re: up/down in tables

[Carsten Dominik]

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On Dec 31, 2007, at 6:46 AM, Scott Otterson wrote:

> Nick and Eddward,
>
> Thanks much for the quick replies.  While generating a test case, I  
> killed the buffer containing the original .org file and then, when I  
> reloaded it,  the problem went away!  However, the "shift the cursor  
> to the left" problem has occurred many times before.  If I can  
> figure out what sequence puts org mode into this state, I'll let you  
> know.
>
> Scott


I am not sure what might be causing this but one possibility is an
unwanted call to set-goal-column or setting the goal-column in a bad  
way.
Could you check the value of that variable when this happens?

- Carsten

>
>
> Nick Dokos (12/30/2007 07:22 PM) wrote:
>>
>> Scott Otterson <scotto@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> When I have the cursor in the middle of table and press the up or  
>>> down
>>> key, the cursor moves up or down as expected, but it also goes to  
>>> the
>>> left hand of the screen -- cumbersome when navigating wide tables,
>>> because you have to right-arrow back to the original column, if you
>>> can remember which column that was.
>>>
>>> Is there a bugfix or a .emacs hack that would make the up/down keys
>>> keep the cursor in the original table column?
>>>
>>>
>> I can't reproduce this on
>>
>>   GNU Emacs 22.1.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.11)
>>   Org-mode version 5.15a
>>
>> Nick
>>
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