From: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changed list indentation behavior: how to revert?
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:03:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tutq67ka.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20201115122154.50ad1503@linux-h0yu.fritz.box
Detlef Steuer <steuer@hsu-hh.de> writes:
> I'm constantly bitten by that change, but was too lazy to dig for the
> cause. But now that I know, I want to add 2c.
>
> If one writes prose it looks much more natural to have
>
> * Healine<Ret>
>
> start editing in column 1 of next row.
> (Personally I would prefer to start at row 3, but independent
> of the depth of the heading. Probably there is a setting already?)
>
> C-j is fine and nice, but I *feel* the default should be the other
> way round.
>
> I'm in no way emotional about these changes, but as Arne demonstrates
> in his example text, org files become less readable when using the new
> default. Heavy indenting is not what we are used to see if we have
> subheadings in prose. Readability of org on the screen should be very high
> in list of usability target. (Most probably it indeed is for the developers!
> I'm not assuming you would neglect it!)
> Maybe all boils down to a matter of taste, but at least imho Arne's
> example shows the problem quite clearly.
>
> For lists or sequences of mostly empty headings this does not matter
> as much.
>
> Furthermore: If I understand correctly electric-ident mode is thought to
> be a helper for programming major modes. In my opinion org is no (not
> only, much more than a) programming mode, so maybe electric ident is not
> the optimal default.
Note that indenting section bodies by default predates Org 9.4: in Org
9.3, hitting TAB on the first line of text after a heading indents it to
column LEVEL+1.
IMHO, the default value of org-adapt-indentation might be the issue here
(made more visible by the change in 9.4): I agree that hard-indenting
prose should not be the default behaviour. FWIW the .dir-locals.el file
at the root of Org's own repository sets this variable to nil; maybe
that suggests that it would be a better default?
(As I said in my reply to Jean Louis: I've only skimmed over this
thread; apologies if I've missed anything.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-15 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-13 17:30 Changed list indentation behavior: how to revert? Karl Voit
2020-11-13 21:10 ` Gustavo Barros
2020-11-13 21:38 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-14 3:02 ` Greg Minshall
2020-11-13 21:47 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-13 22:13 ` Gustavo Barros
2020-11-13 22:21 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-14 17:28 ` Diego Zamboni
2020-11-14 19:10 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-15 12:44 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-11-15 13:26 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-15 21:59 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-11-15 22:15 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-16 7:15 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-11-16 6:26 ` Greg Minshall
2020-11-14 10:45 ` Diego Zamboni
2020-11-13 21:31 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-14 22:43 ` David Rogers
2020-11-15 5:38 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-15 7:47 ` David Rogers
2020-11-15 8:54 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-15 10:37 ` Greg Minshall
2020-11-15 11:42 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-15 11:48 ` Gustavo Barros
2020-11-15 11:58 ` Detlef Steuer
2020-11-15 12:09 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-15 14:50 ` Gustavo Barros
2020-11-15 15:11 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-15 10:44 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-11-15 11:22 ` Detlef Steuer
2020-11-15 14:03 ` Kévin Le Gouguec [this message]
2020-11-16 5:24 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-11-16 6:41 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-16 7:15 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-16 11:21 ` Gustavo Barros
2020-11-16 23:24 ` T.F. Torrey
2020-11-17 1:21 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-17 7:01 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-11-17 7:48 ` Michal Politowski
2020-11-19 4:17 ` Marcel Ventosa
2020-11-16 8:06 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-11-16 12:10 ` Bill Burdick
2020-11-16 6:54 ` Greg Minshall
2020-11-16 7:12 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-17 4:03 ` Greg Minshall
2020-11-17 5:25 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-17 13:15 ` Greg Minshall
2020-11-16 7:01 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-11-16 7:22 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-16 16:04 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-11-16 16:26 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-16 18:12 ` gyro funch
2020-11-16 18:48 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-16 19:41 ` Bill Burdick
2020-11-16 19:56 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-16 21:50 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-16 23:01 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-16 21:44 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-16 18:20 ` gyro funch
2020-11-16 20:56 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-16 21:35 ` Bill Burdick
2020-11-16 22:44 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-16 23:55 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-11-17 9:05 ` Stefan Nobis
2020-11-17 9:15 ` Loris Bennett
2020-11-17 9:32 ` Diego Zamboni
2020-11-17 14:29 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-11-17 16:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-11-16 23:39 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-11-16 21:35 ` Tim Cross
2020-11-17 0:11 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-11-17 8:45 ` Detlef Steuer
2020-11-17 9:41 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17 15:33 ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-11-16 13:00 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-11-16 16:10 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
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