Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org> writes: > > Hi Brady, > > Brady Trainor <algebrat <at> uw.edu> writes:
> > (when respect-content > > (and (looking-at "[ \t]+") (replace-match "")) > > I thought to try substituting "[ \t]+" with "[\t]+", and byte compiled the > > file. But this did not solve. > What you want is not to remove only tabs, but to prevent removing > whitespaces when the string before the point matches "^\*+" -- so > that's what I did with this patch: > > http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=afffe03d Thank you much for taking the time to fix my fix and add the patch. However, my fix was wrong, I should not have been looking inside the =respect content= case. My original intention was to modify the =insert-org-heading=, not =org-insert-heading-respect-content=. I was that lost. Your help and encouragement pushed me to find the `source` of my problem. For this, I looked for ways to step through the code, ala some type of debugger, and I fell upon Emacs' default, Edebugger. (Simply reading org.el was, um, not efficient by itself.) So, I "instrumented" the =defun=s, in the end both of =org-insert-heading= and =org-N-empty-lines-before-current= (via =C-u C-M-x=) and deleting org.elc. This way, testing =M-RET= in an org file, I could =SPACE= through org.el while watching the org file buffer for changes (and *Messages*, though that was more or less awkward for me). So, here are my changes that give me my desired behavior, modifying in the function =org-N-empty-lines-before-current= which follows right after function =org-insert-heading=. Originally (if (looking-back "\\s-+" nil 'greedy) (replace-match "")) (or (bobp) (insert "\n")) I changed this to (unless (looking-back "\* \n") ; don't damage empty headlines (if (looking-back "\\s-+" nil 'greedy) (replace-match "")) (or (bobp) (insert "\n")) ) This feels a bit ad-hoc, as I don't completely understand all the stuff even in =defun org-insert-heading...=, and likely a fix should be made taking into account all desired functionality (but I'd worry to break something else). Let's call it organic! /Someday/, I'd like to understand the org.el better. I haven't learned how to patch, I've barely started gitting about a month ago for backing up files. I guess I should clone the Org-mode source soon, for starters. Thanks again! Brady
