From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) Subject: Re: A Microsoftesque detail in org Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 10:27:09 -1000 Message-ID: References: <87382yji8z.fsf@iki.fi> <87oallabby.fsf@posteo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52627) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YtMCh-0006No-OF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2015 16:27:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YtMCe-0001CJ-GT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2015 16:27:31 -0400 Received: from gproxy8-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([67.222.33.93]:48932) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YtMCe-0000zG-9O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2015 16:27:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87oallabby.fsf@posteo.de> (Titus von der Malsburg's message of "Fri, 15 May 2015 12:29:37 -0700") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Titus von der Malsburg Cc: Jarmo Hurri , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I like this feature and hope that I can keep it by setting a variable if changes are made. All the best, Tom Titus von der Malsburg writes: > I fully agree with this, I find this =E2=80=9Cfeature=E2=80=9D very irrit= ating. There > is a strong expectation that hitting enter inserts a line break > at the position of the cursor. Can we please stick to that? > > When I put the cursor in the middle of a word and press enter that also > =E2=80=9Cbreaks=E2=80=9D the word. Yet we would not prevent the user fro= m doing this. > > Titus > > On 2015-05-15 Fri 02:35, Jarmo Hurri wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> I was just amazed by the following detail in org. In the example below, >> if my cursor is anywhere inside the word "Example", and I press Enter, a >> new line will be inserted below, and the cursor will jump to the next >> line. The location of the cursor inside the heading line is ignored, and >> the heading line will not be broken. >> >> # -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> * Example >> Some text. >> # -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> This immediately reminded me of Microsoft products, where the software >> tries to be too intelligent, thus making it harder for the user. In this >> case, I needed to figure out that Ctrl-o is needed to break the line. >> >> I would suggest that the original interpretation of Enter would not be >> messed with. Messing with Alt-Enter and such is fine, but Enter, please >> no. >> >> Or? >> >> Jarmo > --=20 Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com