On 2020-11-30 Mon 19:25, Diego Zamboni wrote: >> >> I’m aware of several workarounds and this one is perhaps the best. >> However, I’d prefer if RET would just work as expected. Org sometimes >> inserts extra material on RET which I think is okay (e.g. indentation), but >> is there any precedent, in Org or Emacs more broadly, for RET deleting >> text? It seems very counter-intuitive to me. >> > > Could it be that the space is being deleted not when you press RET but > when you save the file? I don't see any space deletion when entering an > empty headline, but in my config, whitespace at end of lines is deleted > on save. In Doom Emacs this is enabled by default, and even before I was > using =delete-trailing-whitespace= as part of my =before-save-hook=.
Your comment has put me on the right track. The line-final whitespace was not deleted by org but by electric-indent-mode, which apparently does this by default. Sorry for the noise! Titus
