From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: keybinding for inserting simple item, simple plain list
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:10:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvp5ny4c.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a8l55rh4.fsf@mat.ucm.es
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>>> "Adam" == Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
>
> > org-meta-return (bound to M-RET by default) does this when you're in a plain
> > list. If you're not in a plain list, it inserts a heading. So just put the
> > point in a list and it should do what you want.
>
> I know this.
>
>
> > If you want a key to both create a plain list when you're not in one and add
> > another item when you are in one, that wouldn't be hard to do.
>
> Yeah, I know I have such a function, but I hoped org-mode already had
> that functionality.
I've never felt the need: once I'm in a list, I use M-<RET> to add
another item, but I always start the list with a dash and a space, typed
explicitly: nothing to go wrong, nothing to remember. BTW, that last
point is getting more important as I get older...
[Aside: I find it more annoying to have to remember to type the
requisite number of RETs at the *end* of the list in order to allow
M-RET to create a headline afterwards: I invariably end up creating a
list item that I have to go back and delete.]
YMMV of course: I'm not saying you shouldn't have such a function.
But I often wonder *why* people would want such a thing (and more often
than I would like to acknowledge, people give good, cogent reasons why
they do, which indicates to me that I often lack imagination.)
--
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-07 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-07 14:40 keybinding for inserting simple item, simple plain list Uwe Brauer
2016-04-07 15:06 ` Adam Porter
2016-04-07 16:11 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-04-07 17:10 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2016-04-08 8:12 ` Uwe Brauer
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