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Samuel Wales |
Subject: |
basic navigation |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Jul 2023 20:55:59 -0700 |
***** 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.
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