Re: [Orgmode] org-beginning-of-line vs visual-line-mode

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Rudi Schlatte wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I run emacs cvs head and the org-mode that is bundled with it.   
> Visual-line-mode is turned on.
>
> The display part of visual-line-mode (breaking long lines into  
> paragraphs visually) works as expected, but C-a (org-beginning-of- 
> line) jumps to the start of the paragraph (i.e. start of the  
> "physical" line).  It would be nice if C-a jumped to the beginning  
> of the screen line.
>
> Cheers, and thanks for an excellent tool for writing!

You can get back the emacs 23 way of doing things with

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
  (lambda ()
    (define-key org-mode-map "\C-a" 'move-beginning-of-line)
    (define-key org-mode-map "\C-a" 'move-end-of-line)))

I personally don't like visual line mode at all, because much
of what I am doing is line-based stuff (source code, for example,
or headlines in Org), and I want these commands to got to
syntactic positions, not visual positions that depend on the
width of my window.

- Carsten