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From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)
Subject: Re: Emulating list functionality from traditional GUI editors
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:34:12 -0500
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Calvin Young writes:

> * If the cursor is at the end of a list item, then "Return" 
> should 
>   insert a new list item (i.e., automatically perform 
>   org-meta-return)

M-<enter> does this. You do not want <enter> to do that because 
you when you want to finish the list <enter> finishes it.
 
> * If the cursor is at the beginning of an empty list item, then 
>   "Return" should outdent the list item (or remove it if it's 
>   already at the outer-most indentation level)

I am not sure that I understand this but I assume that you would 
obtain the same with <tab>. It goes back and forth between levels 
of list so if you have
 
- one
- two
  + a
  + CURSOR_HERE

and you hit <tab> then it changes to 

- one
- two
  + a
    + CURSOR_HERE

and then two times <tab> (or S-<tab> from the beginning) changes 
it to

- one
- two
  + a
- CURSOR_HERE


> * If the cursor is at the beginning of an empty list item, then 
>   "Backspace" should delete the list item and move my cursor to 
>   the end of the previous list item 

I guess you could remap <backspace> to a function that checks if 
you are at the beginning of the list and when that is true it does 
what you want, otherwise it just calls `delete-backward-char'. But 
generally I would do C-a C-k <backspace>, just two more 
keystrokes.
 
> * It'd be nice of these rules could be applied to checkboxes as 
> well

M-S-<enter> inserts a check box.

Best,

-- 
Jorge.