Re: [Patch] M-Right and M-Left behave differently on headings and list items

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 21, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Dan Davison wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Bastien wrote:
>>
>>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> do others agree with Matti's view?
>>>
>>> FWIW, I do.
>>
>> There is still another difference.
>>
>> Currently, when I execute the indentation command
>> several times in a row, the range to which this applies
>> is locked.
>>
>> So for example"
>>
>>     - level 1a
>>        - level 2a
>>        - level 2b
>>        - level 2c
>>     - level 1b
>>
>> If I now go on level 1a and use M-S-left, level 1b becomes a sibling
>> of 2c.  If I immediately after this do M-S-right, 1b should be  
>> indented
>> along with 2c, but this does not happen because the item range is
>> locked.  If, however, you do something in between, like moving the
>> cursor by one character, 1b will be included.
>>
>> I believe I did this a long time ago, because I felt that not locking
>> the range for commands in direct succession would too quickly modify
>> the structure, including at places outside of the current view (
>> beyond the window end)
>>
>> If you are calling for more consistency, maybe this "feature" should
>> go as well?
>
> I hope that this is sufficiently closely related to belong in this
> thread: I find it surprising that org-do-demote deactivates the
> region. Let's say I start out with
>
> * 1
> ** 11
> * 111
> * 112
> * 2
>
> and I wish to move to make 111 and 112 be children of 11
>
> The way that seems natural to me is to select headings 111 and 112,  
> and
> apply org-demote-subtree twice in succession. So with point at the
> beginning of the 111 line,
>
> C-space down down M-right M-right

Hi Dan,

I do agree with your observation.  However, keeping the mark active  
would mean that further cursor motions will still have the highlighted  
region hanging around, and I found this the bigger headache.

What I do in these cases is

M-right C-x C-x M-right

which is not pretty but workable.

- Carsten

>
> However, this leads me to
>
> * 1
> ** 11
> ** 111
> ** 112
> ** 2
>
> because after one application of org-demote-subtree, the region  
> becomes
> deactivated and the second demotion applies to heading 2, which is
> unlikely to have been intended.
>
> Dan
>
>
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
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- Carsten