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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: "James R Miller" <james.ryland.miller@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-list: Add back fancy description list indentation
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 09:06:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8qlsovr.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b91ae30f-188c-48dc-a07c-dc8f299fa6a6@www.fastmail.com> (James R. Miller's message of "Sun, 17 May 2020 23:23:23 -0500")

Hello,

"James R Miller" <james.ryland.miller@gmail.com> writes:

> Was there really not a way to keep fancy description list indentation
> instead of removing it entirely?

I don't know if there is a way, but the implementation did not work with
nested lists.

> I have almost a decade of org files
> that use description lists,

Note that the removal does not break existing documents.

> and it really helps have the description
> items called out from the description text.

The Org manual contains many descriptions lists. 

For short descriptions,

  - XXX XXX XXX :: aaaa aaaa aaa aaaaa aaaaa


For longer descriptions,

  - XXXXX XXX XXX ::

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do
    eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

It doesn't look so bad, IMO. And it is very stable.

> Is there a simple way to add this functionality back in? Perhaps as
> some sort of variable like
> `org-use-fancy-description-list-indentation` instead of throwing it
> out entirely? 

It's not just about introducing a variable. It is about fixing
indentation with description lists containing sub-lists.

You can try, if you want to. It may be tricky though: at first glance,
the previous implementation worked, but it actually didn't.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-18  4:23 Org-list: Add back fancy description list indentation James R Miller
2020-05-18  6:52 ` Colin Baxter
2020-05-18  7:06 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2020-05-18 14:30   ` James R Miller
2020-05-18 16:12     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-05-18 18:57       ` James R Miller
2020-05-19 14:28         ` Nicolas Goaziou

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