Re: [O] A Microsoftesque detail in org

[Rainer M Krug]

Jarmo Hurri <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings.
>
> I was just amazed by the following detail in org. In the example below,
> if my cursor is anywhere inside the word "Example", and I press Enter, a
> new line will be inserted below, and the cursor will jump to the next
> line. The location of the cursor inside the heading line is ignored, and
> the heading line will not be broken.

I was struggling with this as well until I somehow worked around this -
fortunately I did not need this to often.

>
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
> * Example
>   Some text.
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This immediately reminded me of Microsoft products, where the software
> tries to be too intelligent, thus making it harder for the user. In this
> case, I needed to figure out that Ctrl-o is needed to break the line.

Thanks - did not know this.

>
> I would suggest that the original interpretation of Enter would not be
> messed with. Messing with Alt-Enter and such is fine, but Enter, please
> no.

I agree - Return should be return - unless e.g. a "smart return" is
enabled in the settings. I would definitely dis-able this.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Or?
>
> Jarmo
>
>

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