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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Flexible plain list bullets
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:18:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vckw3zk5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8F695D.5090600@kli.org> (Mark E. Shoulson's message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:24:45 -0400")

Hello,

"Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org> writes:

> Attached is a patch that adds a customization variable for setting
> which characters you can use as bullets in plain lists.  Unicode has
> all kinds of pretty characters like ❧ or ☞ that would be good for
> bullets, why limit ourselves to just [-+*]?

This has been discussed recently of the ML.  At that time, many
developers didn't like the idea of Unicode bullets.  I still don't.

> The variable's "set" function sets associated other related variables,
> regular expressions using it, treating "*" specially since it isn't
> a plain-list bullet at the beginning of a line.  Care is taken that
> the character "-" does not wind up in the middle of the character
> range (but there isn't special processing for "]", and maybe there
> should be).

If I understand it correctly, `org-list-full-item-re' wouldn't be set
for users not going through the Customize interface. If that's true, it
would be bad.

> Please take a look, see if it's worth adding tell me what else I need
> to do if necessary.  Thanks!

If you really want to beautify your Org files, you may, instead,
implement a minor mode adding customizable Unicode characters as
overlays on every bullet in the buffer.  I bet some users would
appreciate it.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-19  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-19  1:24 Flexible plain list bullets Mark E. Shoulson
2012-04-19  8:18 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2012-04-19  9:40   ` suvayu ali
2012-04-19 10:01     ` Carsten Dominik
2012-04-20  4:19       ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-04-20  5:58         ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-20 13:38         ` Bastien
2012-04-20 22:18           ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-04-20 22:35             ` Bastien
2012-04-22 13:43               ` Mike McLean
2012-04-20 14:51         ` Carsten Dominik

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