From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>,
org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Flexible plain list bullets
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:01:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A5CFDE45-D9DB-4DB3-88E2-C4C6196C9772@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMXnza1VV-rKFwCzAx_sC=L9HyxkvBjecWDhwcmGWFZ-NiiHNw@mail.gmail.com>
On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:18, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "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.
>
> As a user I don't like this either. I realise I don't have to use it if
> I don't want to, but then this breaks the "Org format". I realise it is
> still not formally defined but many external tools have been developed
> which assumes these basic syntactic elements.
>
> My personal reason for not liking this is, it makes it difficult for me
> to use tools like grep or sed interactively when there is a file with
> these fancy characters.
I think this is very well put. Org must remain parsable,
and all basic syntactic elements should be pure plain text
and not configurable.
- Carsten
>
> However, Nicolas' suggestion about a minor mode to add overlays sounds
> like a great idea to me.
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 10:02 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
2012-04-19 9:40 ` suvayu ali
2012-04-19 10:01 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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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