From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Nathaniel Flath <flat0103@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>,
Jacob Mitchell <jacob.d.mitchell@gmail.com>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:33:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BD5DF6C1-9702-4801-BB34-688CBEA35A52@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinBQSSLw8zmZpv_wAPbBf3yOPKDCMfzNwomf4gy@mail.gmail.com>
On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Nathaniel Flath wrote:
> Carsten,
> If you think this is acceptable I'll start working on it.
>
> Thanks,
> Nathaniel Flath
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Nicolas Goaziou
> <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>>>>>> Carsten Dominik writes:
>>
>>> Or, alternatively, put it in with an option to turn it on (default
>>> off, I think). And maybe we should after all limit it to a single
>>> character to avoid confusion. Yes, I do realise that I asked for
>>> several characters - but I am learning...
>>
>> What will then happen if the user is cycling bullets in a 100+ items
>> list and hits alphabetic bullets? Besides undoing that move, there's
>> nothing much that could be done then. Further cycling would become
>> impossible.
I think it would be appropriate in this case to simply
throw an error and let the user clean up with undo.
>>
>> One idea would be to count items before cycling, and skipping
>> alphabetic bullets for lists above 26 items. It has to be carefully
>> implemented, as it could get very heavy on computations with large
>> lists.
We do not want that I agree.
>>
>> Also, inserting new items in an alphabetical list should check if the
>> 27th item has been reached and change bullets back to numbers if
>> needed.
Again we could simply throw an error here and
let the user handle the cleanup.
>>
>> I'm sure there are others subtleties that I can't think of right now.
Nicolas, would you *object* against a patch by Nathaniel that implements
this? You are Mr lists now, so your green light will be needed.
Kind regards
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-04 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-29 20:27 [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists Nathaniel Flath
2010-07-29 21:07 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-01 18:33 ` David Maus
2010-08-02 9:31 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-08-27 8:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-27 10:53 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-08-27 12:44 ` Jacob Mitchell
2010-08-27 13:01 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-18 7:43 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-21 12:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-21 16:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-26 17:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-26 22:16 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-27 6:55 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-28 16:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-29 15:49 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-29 16:50 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-29 17:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-01 1:13 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-04 8:33 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-04 17:18 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-05 0:07 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-05 0:21 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-05 7:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-21 4:44 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-22 5:30 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-22 8:13 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-23 1:04 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-26 8:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-26 8:23 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-28 7:17 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-11-11 7:16 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-11-11 8:57 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-11-13 15:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-11-22 4:45 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-11-22 13:37 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-11-22 18:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-11-27 4:39 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-12-11 2:41 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-12-20 18:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-01-12 20:05 ` Nathaniel Flath
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