Re: C-o (was: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove)

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Johan Myréen <johan.myreen@gmail.com> [2024-07-03 22:33]:
> >
> > I can see someone doing C-o foo bar but I don't see the benefit compared
> > to foo bar RET
> 
> 
> The benefit is that C-o opens a new blank line to type on, instead of
> prepending what you are writing to the pre-existing text on the line, which
> I find very distracting. Also, I might want to do a quick edit to what I
> have typed so far (maybe to fix a typo before I forget it's there), and
> then return to add new text to the line. If I open a new blank line with
> C-o, I just type C-e to continue typing, but if the line is still stringed
> together with the old line, then finding the correct point is a pita.
> 
> Note that the vi editor also has not only one, but two "open line" commands
> "o" and "O", for opening a line below and above the current line,
> respectively.

Just confirming on the older thread, that I am frequently using C-o
and find it very useful as explained abve by Johan.

-- 
Jean

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