Like many of us, I use org-mode for two different things:
- As a TODO list manager
- As a text outliner
I'd like my blank lines to work differently based on context.
- TODO list: no blank lines
- text outline: automatically insert 1 blank line when non-heading text precedes a heading
In other words, when I'm doing a TODO list when I have many headings in a row, I don't want stray line breaks between them.
TODO list mode, no line breaks:
* Organize Party [33%]
** TODO Call people [1/2]
*** TODO Peter
*** DONE Sarah
** TODO Buy food
** DONE Talk to neighbor
However, when I'm writing text, I want line breaks for the sake of visual whitespace / ease of reading.
outline mode, blank line before heading:
* Heading
This is a document that has a heading, and a body. The body will consist of two paragraphs with sub-headings.
* Body
This is an introduction to the body. The body has two sub-headings, each of which have their own paragraph.
** The First Paragraph
This is the first of two paragraphs.
** The Second Paragraph
This is the second of two paragraphs.
I've already set org-blank-before-new-entry to auto:
((heading . auto)
(plain-list-item . auto))
But I think org-blank-before-new-entry works by detecting other blank lines in the area. I want it to detect whether the preceding line of text is a heading or a non-heading.
How can I modify org-blank-before-new-entry so that when I'm in a TODO list consisting only of headings, org-meta-return
doesn't add a line break? but after a block of text, it does?