Re: basic navigation

[Samuel Wales]

there are a few issues here actually.  first is that non-words get
gobbled up along with words.  this is too much for my taste.  i'd be
ok with each chunk of non-word syntax being kind of like a word, for
example.

the other thing i did not illustrate.  going left means going to bow.
but going right means going to, not eow, but the space.  similar with
paragraphs and so on.

suppose i am at bow.

  this is ^a word.

and i want to kill-word that.  i end up with 2 spaces.  so sometimes i
do gyrations to kill the right thing.  it's too much for me.

the adage that emacs is a superb os but it lacks a decent editor is,
for me, almost true, with these little [intentional, but not quite
working well for me] glitches.  maybe a package?

On 7/4/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> 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.
>
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