From: 42 147 <aeuster@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-meta-return
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:28:00 -0500 [thread overview]
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> You can also use <TAB> on an empty headline to cycle through the various
> levels: +1 level, -1 level, -2..n levels (until it reaches the top level
> "*"), and then back to the level it was created at.
Good to know, but I ended up with a simple defun and org-mode-hook. Will
probably add what you said to my arsenal, however.
My hands might be smaller than average, or, at least, smaller than yours.
To reach <right> I must shift my entire arm to the right and
downward. To reach <RET> no such movement is necessary. Maybe a slight
turn of the wrist to the right.
> Of course, these things are *highly* personal preferences, and you might
> have a lower tolerance for pain than I have, but I have to ask: where
> exactly is your <right> key relative to <RET>?
Warning, digression:
I'm ultra cautious about finger / wrist strain. Even if I feel slight
discomfort from a keybinding, I will change it to be more ergonomic and
strain-free. Practically every basic Emacs movement command has been
rebound for optimum comfort as a QWERTY typist.
Many of the default Emacs keybindings are notational, not positional. For
example, C-p and C-n. I've made them all positional. C-p / C-] are now
paired together for previous-line / next-line. C-q / C-e for
beginning-of-line / end-of-line. From a positional standpoint, C-p / C-n
makes absolutely no sense.
2013/2/20 Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
> 42 147 <aeuster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > M-RET M-<right>
> >
> > Appreciate the reply, but that's worse than what I was doing. M-<right>
> > is not anywhere close to my high frequency areas of finger activity
> > I've changed all such keybindings.
> >
>
> In all three keyboards I use regularly, <right> is fairly close to <RET>
> (and to the right Control key): I can reach it fairly easily with my
> right pinky, same as with <RET> - it does require a bigger stretch for
> the full-size keyboards than it does on the laptop keyboard - although
> I'm a sufficiently bad typist that I often have to resort to looking at
> the keyboard in such situations, in which case I use my right index
> finger (for <RET> as well as <right> or other arrow key).
>
> That's not too bad because it's not as if this is a frequent activity
> for me. Org's standard keymaps also use arrow keys fairly heavily, so
> changing all of them sounds like a lot of work: I've tried swimming
> against such tides before, but invariably I have given up exhausted,
> gone back to the standard keymap and lived a much happier life.
>
> Of course, these things are *highly* personal preferences, and you might
> have a lower tolerance for pain than I have, but I have to ask: where
> exactly is your <right> key relative to <RET>? How far
>
> > I notice that C-M-RET is undefined. If anyone wants to add the
> > functionality as described in my original post, and bind it to that key
> > chord, I would be grateful; in the meantime, I'll create a macro /
> > interactive defun to do the same.
> >
>
> If, despite my warnings, you still want to proceed, you can do something
> like this (lightly tested) - add it to the end of your .emacs:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun my-org-control-meta-return ()
> "Assume we are in headline context: open a new headline one level
> below the current one."
> (interactive)
> (org-insert-heading)
> (org-metaright))
>
> (defun my-org-mode-hook ()
> (define-key org-mode-map (org-key [(control meta return)])
> 'my-org-control-meta-return))
>
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (function my-org-mode-hook))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Although I use some org facilities above (org-key in particular), this
> is a general process which you might want to add to your arsenal of
> emacs techniques:
>
> o Define a hook (a function of no arguments) and add it to the mode's
> hook. When the mode is loaded, it runs its mode hook as the last thing
> it does.
>
> o The hook (re)defines a key in some keymap (org-mode-map above),
> binding a function of your choosing to the key. It can of course do
> other things as well (or in place of redefining keys).
>
> o Finally, write the function that's to be bound to the key. This is
> absolutely at your discretion: make it do whatever you want it to do
> when you press that key.
>
> Note however that org-meta-return checks the context that it is called
> from and does the Right Thing (tm). my-org-control-meta-return just
> assumes it's at a headline context and proceeds blindly, e.g. if you do
> C-M-RET in a table, you'll probably mess up the table. Making it
> bullet-proof is left as an exercise for the interested reader.
>
> Read more about hooks at
>
> (info "(emacs) Hooks")
>
> Nick
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-20 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-20 19:32 org-meta-return 42 147
2013-02-20 19:40 ` org-meta-return Suvayu Ali
2013-02-20 21:17 ` org-meta-return 42 147
2013-02-20 21:57 ` org-meta-return Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2013-02-20 22:33 ` org-meta-return Suvayu Ali
2013-02-20 22:59 ` org-meta-return Nick Dokos
2013-02-20 23:25 ` org-meta-return W. Greenhouse
2013-02-20 23:28 ` 42 147 [this message]
2013-02-21 0:11 ` org-meta-return Nick Dokos
2013-02-21 0:43 ` org-meta-return Suvayu Ali
2013-02-21 1:10 ` org-meta-return Nick Dokos
2013-02-26 9:03 ` org-meta-return Eric S Fraga
2013-02-26 11:10 ` org-meta-return Sebastien Vauban
2013-02-26 13:16 ` org-meta-return Suvayu Ali
2013-02-26 15:54 ` org-meta-return Eric S Fraga
2013-02-21 21:16 ` org-meta-return 42 147
2013-02-23 3:30 ` org-meta-return James Harkins
2013-03-02 20:43 ` org-meta-return Michael Brand
2013-03-02 23:59 ` org-meta-return 42 147
2013-03-03 10:08 ` org-meta-return Michael Brand
2013-03-03 10:44 ` org-meta-return Eric Abrahamsen
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2016-10-31 0:16 org-meta-return 42 147
2016-10-31 11:10 ` org-meta-return Nicolas Goaziou
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