From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nathan Neff Subject: Re: Questions about creating new nodes (headings) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:51:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O7DIg-0000jo-ST for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:52:03 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56092 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O7DId-0000e3-7w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:52:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7DIb-0002gd-9l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:51:59 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f214.google.com ([209.85.219.214]:39384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7DIb-0002gS-3n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:51:57 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so5691458ewy.32 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:51:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Frascone Cc: emacs-orgmode On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:41 PM, David Frascone wrote: > Here are two questions (or maybe one question, and a bug report) from my > note taking while reading the manual. > > ***** Best way to make next menu item?=A0 M-Enter seems to work pretty we= ll. > I'm not to happy with the way org-mode adds a blank line after a block > of text when doing C-S-RET from the entry line, and M-RET from the > block of text.=A0 Do most of you have a blank line after your text > blocks, but before the next entry? I think you want to customize the org-blank-before-new-entry variable. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#blank-line-after-headlines-and-list-ite= ms ***** C- does not seem to do what the info page suggests. > It seems to go into a column selection mode.=A0 Which, by itself, is > very useful, and I'll have to remember that.=A0=A0 I can't seem to find > the C- behavior anywhere (jump over the body, and add a new > heading at the same level. C-S- Does do what it is supposed to, > so, I guess a good workaround is C-S-, then backspace over the TODO. I think this is an Aquamacs thing -- Aquamacs overrides the C-Ret binding w= ith some cua-set-rectangle-mark function that I know nothing about. What I have found is that C-Ret runs "org-insert-heading-respect-content", (except on Aquamacs). Anyway, M-Ret will do the *same thing* (to the best of my knowledge) /if/ you have this setting: (setq org-insert-heading-respect-content t) And I think that most people that use org-mode do indeed set org-insert-heading-respect-content. So, I don't bother w/C-Ret, and just use M-Ret all the time, after setting the above variable to 't HTH, --Nate