On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:32:57AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 08:03:32AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > > > One more thought: What if the paragraph motion commands did use elements, > > but > > ignored the hierarchy. So they jump to the next headline, paragraph, > > table, src block, item? > > > > I think this would feel similar to what paragraph motion does in text mode. > > This is a great suggestion!
Actually it is not trivial to do this I think. It requires a lot of special handling. Effectively you have to "flatten" the element tree (since there are greater elements, and more fundamental elements). One might then say: aha, just use the leaf nodes. But again that does not work. A few examples: although a regular paragraph (whatever that might be :-p) could be a leaf, what about a list? Do we want traversing list items or entire lists with this new implementation? For a list with one line entries, going over entire lists might be desired, on the other hand a user might expect to traverse entries when going through a list with multi-line or multi-paragraph entries. Then there are tables, do you traverse rows (which are elements AFAIU) or entire tables; and so on. As you see this is a rather subjective issue. I have a few thoughts though. We could discuss this on the list and give a default implementation based on the consensus, but it would be nice to give an easy way to _write_ a custom paragraph motion command using elements. I am not sure what that might be though :-p. I will try to think about this some more. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
