On 2020-11-30 Mon 18:31, Berry, Charles wrote: >> On Nov 30, 2020, at 9:21 AM, Titus von der Malsburg <malsb...@posteo.de> >> wrote: >> >> >> When I start a new line with '* ' followed by RET, the space is >> automatically deleted and I’m left with a line that just has the asterisk >> (i.e. not a headline). >> >> Unfortunately there are use cases where empty headlines make sense and they >> occur often in my work. One example is Beamer slides where each headline at >> some level produces a slide. If the user needs a slide without title >> (common, e.g., for a large images that fill the slide), an empty headline is >> needed. >> >> Is there a way to teach Org to leave the empty headline intact? >> >> I may be old-fashioned but when I type '* ', I do it for a reason and I wish >> that my text editor respects that. :) >> > > > Instead of `* SPACE RET', try `* SPACE C-j'.
I’m aware of several workarounds and this one is perhaps the best. However, I’d prefer if RET would just work as expected. Org sometimes inserts extra material on RET which I think is okay (e.g. indentation), but is there any precedent, in Org or Emacs more broadly, for RET deleting text? It seems very counter-intuitive to me. Titus
