From: Platon Pronko <platon7pronko@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: basic navigation
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 08:16:35 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d5a5a90-8c29-e781-fdea-59790894cadc@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8t++LCwW+EbS8_L0nyoszB1sqitZg61HaVCXQeWgYzHwg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2023-07-05 07:55, Samuel Wales wrote:
> ***** basic navigation and killing
> i am wondering if there are packages that can do this kind
> of thing better.
>
> this applies to any editing. here is an example. suppose i
> am on an org-mode heading, with point at ^.
>
> never mind the actual text. my goal is to transform it to
> this.
>
> *** ^gather and do physical
>
> so i do the first thing that comes to mind: c-backspace
> which runs backward-kill-word in my emacs 27.1.
>
> there are of course many other things i can do, instead,
> such as go to bol, use delete-char, etc., but i want to
> illustrate basic word killing with this example. what
> occurs is this, successively.
>
> *** --- /various to do/ and to ^gather and do physical
> *** --- /various to do/ and ^gather and do physical
> *** --- /various to do/ ^gather and do physical
> *** --- /various to ^gather and do physical
>
> i don't particularly mind the command's ignorance of org
> syntax here.
>
> *** --- /various ^gather and do physical
> *** --- /^gather and do physical
>
> and then once more to get rid of the --- syntax, which is a
> bit of an emacs editing disaster. what i wanted was to have
> it produce what i set out to do. maybe naive, but i wonder
> if there might be different killing/nav paradigms.
>
> i've been vexed by this since the 1980s with only sporadic
> attempts to see if i can improve on it. time to rely on
> others for some ideas and possible existing packages.
> please be gentle with me. am cognitively impaired.
>
In this particular situation I'd do it like this: C-space, C-a, 4x C-f, C-w (set mark, move to beginning of the line, move 4 characters forward, delete selection).
Or alternatively C-space, C-a, M-4 C-f, C-w (same thing but automate repetitive C-f).
Actually, you can use (setq org-special-ctrl-a/e t), then you can drop 4x C-f because C-a will take you to beginning of the heading automatically.
If you need to do this particular thing often you can make a macro out of it, or a small interactive function.
By the way, there's also C-0 C-k (kill to the beginning of the line), but that will also remove the heading asterisks, which is probably not intended.
--
Best regards,
Platon Pronko
PGP 2A62D77A7A2CB94E
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-05 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-05 3:55 basic navigation Samuel Wales
2023-07-05 4:16 ` Platon Pronko [this message]
2023-07-05 4:24 ` Samuel Wales
2023-07-05 4:33 ` Platon Pronko
2023-07-05 4:41 ` Samuel Wales
2023-07-05 4:17 ` Samuel Wales
2023-07-05 5:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-07-13 0:18 ` Samuel Wales
2023-07-13 0:34 ` Emanuel Berg
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