> You can also use <TAB> on an empty headline to cycle through the various > levels: +1 level, -1 level, -2..n levels (until it reaches the top level > "*"), and then back to the level it was created at.
Good to know, but I ended up with a simple defun and org-mode-hook. Will probably add what you said to my arsenal, however. My hands might be smaller than average, or, at least, smaller than yours. To reach <right> I must shift my entire arm to the right and downward. To reach <RET> no such movement is necessary. Maybe a slight turn of the wrist to the right. > Of course, these things are *highly* personal preferences, and you might > have a lower tolerance for pain than I have, but I have to ask: where > exactly is your <right> key relative to <RET>? Warning, digression: I'm ultra cautious about finger / wrist strain. Even if I feel slight discomfort from a keybinding, I will change it to be more ergonomic and strain-free. Practically every basic Emacs movement command has been rebound for optimum comfort as a QWERTY typist. Many of the default Emacs keybindings are notational, not positional. For example, C-p and C-n. I've made them all positional. C-p / C-] are now paired together for previous-line / next-line. C-q / C-e for beginning-of-line / end-of-line. From a positional standpoint, C-p / C-n makes absolutely no sense. 2013/2/20 Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> > 42 147 <aeus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > M-RET M-<right> > > > > Appreciate the reply, but that's worse than what I was doing. M-<right> > > is not anywhere close to my high frequency areas of finger activity > > I've changed all such keybindings. > > > > In all three keyboards I use regularly, <right> is fairly close to <RET> > (and to the right Control key): I can reach it fairly easily with my > right pinky, same as with <RET> - it does require a bigger stretch for > the full-size keyboards than it does on the laptop keyboard - although > I'm a sufficiently bad typist that I often have to resort to looking at > the keyboard in such situations, in which case I use my right index > finger (for <RET> as well as <right> or other arrow key). > > That's not too bad because it's not as if this is a frequent activity > for me. Org's standard keymaps also use arrow keys fairly heavily, so > changing all of them sounds like a lot of work: I've tried swimming > against such tides before, but invariably I have given up exhausted, > gone back to the standard keymap and lived a much happier life. > > Of course, these things are *highly* personal preferences, and you might > have a lower tolerance for pain than I have, but I have to ask: where > exactly is your <right> key relative to <RET>? How far > > > I notice that C-M-RET is undefined. If anyone wants to add the > > functionality as described in my original post, and bind it to that key > > chord, I would be grateful; in the meantime, I'll create a macro / > > interactive defun to do the same. > > > > If, despite my warnings, you still want to proceed, you can do something > like this (lightly tested) - add it to the end of your .emacs: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (defun my-org-control-meta-return () > "Assume we are in headline context: open a new headline one level > below the current one." > (interactive) > (org-insert-heading) > (org-metaright)) > > (defun my-org-mode-hook () > (define-key org-mode-map (org-key [(control meta return)]) > 'my-org-control-meta-return)) > > (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (function my-org-mode-hook)) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Although I use some org facilities above (org-key in particular), this > is a general process which you might want to add to your arsenal of > emacs techniques: > > o Define a hook (a function of no arguments) and add it to the mode's > hook. When the mode is loaded, it runs its mode hook as the last thing > it does. > > o The hook (re)defines a key in some keymap (org-mode-map above), > binding a function of your choosing to the key. It can of course do > other things as well (or in place of redefining keys). > > o Finally, write the function that's to be bound to the key. This is > absolutely at your discretion: make it do whatever you want it to do > when you press that key. > > Note however that org-meta-return checks the context that it is called > from and does the Right Thing (tm). my-org-control-meta-return just > assumes it's at a headline context and proceeds blindly, e.g. if you do > C-M-RET in a table, you'll probably mess up the table. Making it > bullet-proof is left as an exercise for the interested reader. > > Read more about hooks at > > (info "(emacs) Hooks") > > Nick >
