On 12 May 2010 06:48, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:

Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>
> I don't understand why C-M-a should be bound to take one back to the
> beginning of a heading when C-a already does this. With the proposed
> changes, one might press C-M-a and then C-M-p which is a total of 4
> keys, when the current set-up is to press C-c C-p which is only 3
> keys. I'm not in favor of increasing the number of keys one needs to
> press to perform a basic motion.
>

I haven't been following this thread so take this with a grain of salt, but I count key-chords as single keys – since they can all be pressed in a single motion,

I agree that chording makes for single commands.

Scott,

Also,

the C-M-a to go back to beginning of heading works when one is somewhere 'under' the heading: in the 'content'/text in that section... so I think it is different from C-a (did I understand you right?).

Scott, you had said

I'm not in favor of increasing the number of keys one needs to press to perform a basic motion.

I too hope there is a 'good' resolution to this.

FWIW, I have already followed the example of other responders and bound C-M-... to work like the C-c C-... equivalents -- I find this change to be an improvement over C-c C-... :

the trivial loss being that C-M-.. no longer works for parentheses-based movement in org buffers.

which would mean

C-M-a 1 key press

C-c C-a 2 key presses

but maybe my hands are just too accustomed to typing in Emacs and it's skewing my perception.

Best – Eric

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