Re: [BUG] org-insert-heading changed behavior with Emacs 29.2 [9.6.15 (release_9.6.15 @ /usr/local/share/emacs/29.2/lisp/org/)]

[Ihor Radchenko]

gusbrs <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com> writes:

> I recently upgraded to Emacs 29.2 (from 29.1) and observed that
> `org-insert-heading-respect-content' has changed behavior with regard
> to how it handles blank lines at the end of the entry at which the
> command was called.
>
> Consider the following document (with "|" representing point):
>
> ** |SubSec1
>
> text
>
> ** SubSec2

> Calling `org-insert-heading-respect-content' ("C-RET") with Org
> version 9.6.6 (built-in Emacs 29.1) would result in:
> ...
> ** |
>
> ** SubSec2
>
> Now, with Org version 9.6.15 (built-in Emacs 29.2), it results in:
> ...
> ,** |
> ,** SubSec2
>
> That is an unfortunate change of behavior since those who like to keep
> some breathing space at the end of entries now have to deal with it
> manually after the heading is inserted.  So the handy "C-RET" becomes
> something like "C-RET RET C-b SPC".  Plus the cost of having to think
> about it, and that of occasionally forgetting it, consistency is just
> harder to maintain.

The number of blank lines after newly inserted is not defined by Org
mode, unlike the number of blank lines before heading that is controlled
by `org-blank-before-new-entry'.

If you use M-<RET> rather then C-<RET> and set
(setq org-blank-before-new-entry '((heading) (plain-list-item)))
, you will get no newlines after the new heading inserted before current:

* Sec1

** <point>SubSec1

M-<RET> will yield

* Sec1
** <point>
** SubSec1

Would it make sense to add a new `org-blank-after-new-entry'
customization that will provide explicit user control over what Org does
when inserting a new heading?

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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