From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: Flexible plain list bullets Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:35:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87sjfy116q.fsf@altern.org> References: <4F8F695D.5090600@kli.org> <87vckw3zk5.fsf@gmail.com> <4F90E3DC.1040901@kli.org> <8762cuttei.fsf@altern.org> <4F91E0B5.9090006@kli.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41149) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLMPT-0005Qj-GD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:34:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLMPR-0003OL-Nm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:34:35 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:39257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLMPR-0003OG-Ee for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:34:33 -0400 Received: by wgbdr1 with SMTP id dr1so7497225wgb.30 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:34:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F91E0B5.9090006@kli.org> (Mark E. Shoulson's message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:18:29 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Mark E. Shoulson" Cc: org-mode mailing list , Carsten Dominik Hi Mark, "Mark E. Shoulson" writes: > I'd > offer to write a patch for some of the more obvious ones, to free up that > much time from others, but it would be so small, it would probably take as > long for someone to look over my patch as to write it themselves, so it > wouldn't save anyone any time really. Writing a patch is the only way to have someone to look over it :) And this is always a good way to encourage devs to review/apply it. And the author of the patch learns something new... we all started there. > (I'm talkative, yes, but not > necessarily a jerk.) :) > I played with making the customization only able to ADD new characters, > which I think would not be so harmful, but really only for my own > edification; I can see that there really is no desire (outside me) to add > this feature anyway. Don't underestimate the Unpredictable -- I'm sure if you write something with overlays and funny Unicode chars for list bullets people will start using it. Speaking for me, I'd be curious to test it! -- Bastien