From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: mail@christianmoe.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] adding new plain lists item changes previous one it it ends in a number on a single lijne followed by a dot
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:09:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hdh6wgf.wl%n.goaziou@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4A7F61.4010202@christianmoe.com>
Hello,
>>>>> Christian Moe writes:
> Numbers at the beginning of the line inadvertently starting a list
> item is a bug.
You call it a bug, but it is actually the Org definition of a numbered
item. This is in the manual. Though, I think I understand what you
mean: this definition can lead to surprising results. But the user is
warned in the documentation.
> It means you can mess up your exported document (it doesn't just
> happen at M-RET) by just writing a perfectly normal text, and there
> is no easy-to-remember escape. (I really don't like the
> invisible-space workaround -- it's hard to remember how to insert
> it, and it's a bizarre trick to have to tell newcomers.)
See the solution 1 posted before. This is the "original" solution,
although, admittedly, similar problems will resurface with numbers and
parenthesis, albeit less frequently.
> ReStructuredText provides a backslash-escape for this, even though
> its more rigid structure reduces the chances of the error happening.
> Could we borrow that trick, or would it conflict with something
> else?
I don't follow you here. Inserting a non-breaking space (it was only
an example, by the way) is an unacceptable trick to tell to newcomers
but adding a backslash in front of numbers isn't? It looks the same to
me.
As long as Org cannot tell between an ordered item and a number at the
end of a sentence, those problems will persist. And I can't see any
non-hackish solution about it.
We can always change `org-plain-list-ordered-item-terminator' default
value to the safer ?), though.
Regards,
--
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-02 19:20 [BUG] adding new plain lists item changes previous one it it ends in a number on a single lijne followed by a dot Gregor Zattler
2011-02-02 19:24 ` Jeff Horn
2011-02-02 21:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-02-03 10:11 ` Christian Moe
2011-02-03 14:09 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2011-02-03 16:11 ` Jeff Horn
2011-02-03 16:47 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-02-03 21:22 ` Jeff Horn
2011-02-04 19:09 ` Christian Moe
2011-02-03 18:04 ` Achim Gratz
2011-02-04 16:16 ` Gregor Zattler
2011-02-05 21:04 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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