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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Flexible plain list bullets
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:01:53 +0200
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Cc: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>, org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>


On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>=20
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:18, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org> writes:
>>=20
>>> 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 =E2=9D=A7 or =E2=98=9E that =
would be good for
>>> bullets, why limit ourselves to just [-+*]?
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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

>=20
> However, Nicolas' suggestion about a minor mode to add overlays sounds
> like a great idea to me.
>=20
> --=20
> Suvayu
>=20
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>=20

- Carsten