Re: header-sensitive beginning-of-line?

["Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1007876070.52bd2b@lickey.com>]

Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

> It might be nice if message-mode had a way to allow you to navigate
> point to the beginning of the header value.  This would make it easier
> to trim out values if you typed in the wrong email address, or
> newsgroup, or subject line.  For example:
>
> Subject: C-a currently moves point to beginning of line
> ^
> ^
> ^
>
> Subject: WIBNI the cursor could end up after the ': '?
>          ^
>          ^
>          ^
>
> Maybe message-mode could have a function named message-bol which would
> place point just after the ': '.  (Similar to how C-c C-a
> (comint-bol-or-process-mark) operates in shell-mode.)  Maybe we could
> define C-a in message-mode to run a new function `message-bol' which,
> if point was in the header, would navigate to just past the ': '.  Two
> consecutive invocations of `message-bol' could navigate point to the
> true BOL.
>
> Any thoughts?

I like the idea.  I'm not sure if it should be the default -- people
expect C-a to behave a certain way.  Unfortunately C-c C-a is already
taken by mml-attach-file.

But I am frequently doing C-a M-f M-f M-b to do what your message-bol
does.

Of course, if point is already at the sweet spot, message-bol should
then go to the real beginning of line.


-- 
matt