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Re: [Orgmode] Moving paragraphs instead of lines
From: |
Adam Spiers |
Subject: |
Re: [Orgmode] Moving paragraphs instead of lines |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:16:53 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) |
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:18:22AM +0000, Rick Moynihan wrote:
> When the cursor is positioned within a paragraph would M-<up> and
> M-<down> not be better set to move the current paragraph above or below
> it's surrounding paragraphs respectively?
>
> e.g. When the point is positioned in the following outline, would a
> M-<up> not be better moving the foo paragraph above the bar one, rather
> than just repositioning the 6-foo line?
>
> * Outline
>
> bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar
> bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar bar
> bar bar bar bar bar
>
> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo foo foo foo foo | <-- point
>
> I could see such operations being restricted to only operate with the
> current outline level. I realise the M-<up>/<down> behaviour when on an
> outline is correct, but I see little need in repositioning lines within
> a paragraph if the user is using M-q to wrap paragraphs, as I do.
> Moving the paragraph here would surely make more sense.
If anything, I would actually vote for the entire outline heading
being moved within the outline structure, since emacs already provides
plenty of functionality with regards to normal text editing
(`transpose-lines', `transpose-paragraphs', `mark-paragraph' etc.).