Bad interaction between `org-special-ctrl-a/e` and olivetti in org-mode about olivetti HOT 4 CLOSED

from olivetti.

Hello again,

You’re absolutely right, this seems to come from org’s visual-line-mode, and there’s a thread addressing this issue here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg122261.html

Thanks for looking it up and pointing me in the right direction.

from olivetti.

from olivetti.

I’ve had the displeasure of dealing with several of those org-* functions for a fairly large patch, and they can surely be frustrating. It’s even worse with lispy (a major-mode for editing lisp). That being said, I can’t think of an easier way to build on basic commands/functions when you need context-specific behaviours (such as the special C-a and C-e for org-mode).

For those interested in a quick fix, based on Nicolas Goaziou's explanation, you can explicitly bind C-a and C-e to their special behaviours in org-mode-hook:

(defun org-mode-config ()
  "Modify keymaps used by `org-mode'."
  (local-set-key (kbd "C-a") 'org-beginning-of-line)
  (local-set-key (kbd "C-e") 'org-end-of-line)
  …
  )
(setq org-mode-hook 'org-mode-config)

HTH.

from olivetti.