Re: [O] A Microsoftesque detail in org

[Jarmo Hurri]

Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:

Greetings Rasmus.

>> 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.
>
> I disagree.  Consider the more complete example:
>
> * TODO [#A] foo bar        :tag:
>
> With your behavior you can (i) break the TODO tag; (ii) break the cookie;
> (iii) break the tag.  At least (i) and (ii) are quite destructive.

I am not sure what you mean, since a single undo will always heal the
line again, regardless of where you break it.

I am a BIG fan of the Org mode slogan "Your life in plain text." The
power of plain text has been demonstrated over and over again. You can
run text manipulating commands on it, you can process it with a large
array of different programming languages.

An undo is a basic text editing feature that everyone should
know. Reassigning non-standard behaviour to the return key is - in my
opinion - against the ideology.

> The attached patch re-enables breaks in region four of
> org-complex-heading-regexp, i.e. from the cookie up to tags.  A quick
> test suggests it works nicely.
>
> WDYT?

Given enough time, I could come up with a situation where I would run a
keyboard macro in which I would expect the return key to break the line,
regardless of where I was on that line (in a tag or whatever).

I am a very minor player in this game, but I would really, _really_ like
Org to remain as true to it's slogan as possible.

Keeping it real,

Jarmo