Re: [Orgmode] [Patch] M-Right and M-Left behave differently on headings and list items

[Dan Davison]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Bastien wrote:
>
>> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> do others agree with Matti's view?
>>
>> FWIW, I do.
>
> There is still another difference.
>
> Currently, when I execute the indentation command
> several times in a row, the range to which this applies
> is locked.
>
> So for example"
>
>      - level 1a
>         - level 2a
>         - level 2b
>         - level 2c
>      - level 1b
>
> If I now go on level 1a and use M-S-left, level 1b becomes a sibling
> of 2c.  If I immediately after this do M-S-right, 1b should be indented
> along with 2c, but this does not happen because the item range is
> locked.  If, however, you do something in between, like moving the
> cursor by one character, 1b will be included.
>
> I believe I did this a long time ago, because I felt that not locking
> the range for commands in direct succession would too quickly modify
> the structure, including at places outside of the current view (
> beyond the window end)
>
> If you are calling for more consistency, maybe this "feature" should
> go as well?

I hope that this is sufficiently closely related to belong in this
thread: I find it surprising that org-do-demote deactivates the
region. Let's say I start out with

* 1
** 11
* 111
* 112
* 2

and I wish to move to make 111 and 112 be children of 11

The way that seems natural to me is to select headings 111 and 112, and
apply org-demote-subtree twice in succession. So with point at the
beginning of the 111 line,

C-space down down M-right M-right

However, this leads me to

* 1
** 11
** 111
** 112
** 2

because after one application of org-demote-subtree, the region becomes
deactivated and the second demotion applies to heading 2, which is
unlikely to have been intended.

Dan


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