Re: C-a and C-e in org-mode

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Ken Harris wrote:

> Hello, org-mode!
>
> I've been using org-mode recently, and overall it's pretty nice, but
> one thing doesn't seem to work quite right.
>
> I have org-special-ctrl-a/e set to nil (the default, I think).  I
> think this means that C-e should work just like normal.
> Unfortunately, C-u C-e fails with "Wrong type argument: integerp,
> (4)".  If I use an explicit prefix (like C-u 4 C-e) it works fine.
>
> It's been a while since I've written any Emacs Lisp, but I guess (4)
> is the default prefix argument and end-of-line doesn't know how to
> parse that when coming in as a normal arg.  This is probably an easy
> fix (and maybe I'll write a patch later, if I have some spare time).
>
> C-a seems to always go to the start-of-line, regardless of the prefix
> argument (implicit or explicit).  That looks like a slightly deeper
> problem.

Hmmm, why would you ever want to call thee commands with
a prefix argument?  That did not occur to me, which is why these
commands do not care about it.

If you explain it, maybe we can change it.

- Carsten

>
>
> Anyway, thanks for the neat mode!
>
>
> - Ken
>
>
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