Re: [Orgmode] Release 6.33

[Carsten Dominik]

On Nov 13, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Dan Davison wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Nov 13, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> >
> > > At Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:51:11 +0100,
> > > Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > > > here are the Changes in the latest release 6.33.  Emacs 23.2,  
> > > > when it
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Speed commands at the start of a headline
> > > > ==========================================
> > >
> > > Excellent addition!  This makes org-mode even /more/ usable on  
> > > systems
> > > with very small keyboards (like smartphones etc).  I'd been using
> > > viper-mode to have single key movement in org-mode buffers but  
> > > you've
> > > not only made this possible but have completely exceeded my
> > > requirements through all the extra commands available (clocking in,
> > > etc.).  Fantastic!
>
>
> Me too, this looks great. I think it's going to have me learning  
> lots of
> org commands that I hadn't got round to learning before. My first
> questions:
>
> n   outline-next-visible-heading
> p   outline-previous-visible-heading
> f   org-forward-same-level
> b   org-backward-same-level
>
> It would be nice if I could keep tapping these, safe in the knowledge
> that I would remain within the world of speed-commands.

Hi Dan, this is an important point, and it now works like this.

> However, they
> can all 'fall off the edge' and start inserting characters. If that
> behaviour is critical to org-mode when calling the functions directly,
> is it nevertheless worth considering making the behaviour slightly
> different for speed commands? I.e. e.g. make 'n' refuse to do anything
> if there is no next visible heading. (I suppose that could be done  
> with
> new optional args to org-[f/b]-same-level (I don't know about
> outline-[n/p]-visible-heading; would that be a suitable situation for
> defadvice?))
>
> Secondly, is it worth considering expanding the speed-command zone to
> include any position in the leading asterisks (perhaps even in the  
> TODO
> keyword, seeing as this is non-default behaviour)?

Well, I am not comfortable with this, so I don't want to put
this in as a standard option.  But you can now set `org-use-speed- 
commands'
to a predicate function that tests for appropriate location.  Let us  
know
if you have a good one, maybe I will put it in anyway.

- Carsten