Re: M-RET and C-RET turn current line of text into a heading?

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

Eric Abrahamsen writes:

> I don't see why `org-ctrl-c-star' --> `org-toggle-heading' isn't enough
> for creating headlines out of existing text. 

Fair point, but I find it useful to have a simpler and speedier
combination, redundant or not. For instance, I often use Org to make
structured documents out of plain text, text copy-pasted from PDFs etc.,
which involves scrolling through the document and repeatedly turning the
lines at point into headings. It quickly becomes a nuisance to do this
with a sequence of two double keypresses (`C-c *', that is, `C-c S-8' --
not to mention that I routinely switch between keyboards for three
languages with somewhat different ideas where `*' should be).

> At the very least, we shouldn't now have three keystrokes (C-c *,
> M-RET, C-RET) that do the same thing! Also,
> `org-M-RET-may-split-line', which was once a very interesting
> variable, now does nothing since M-RET simply doesn't split the line.

True. I think this needs to be revisited (before too many people get
used to the recent arrangement).

Yours,
Christian