From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:33:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bp8o498o.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> <393C5110-E4D3-4B36-8F4E-4F94B5AA0F93@gmail.com> <87k4m876g3.wl%n.goaziou@gmail.com> <87iq1r7k00.wl%n.goaziou@gmail.com> <747F5104-6B1C-43E8-BF42-883287B7E303@gmail.com> <87aan0789y.wl%n.goaziou@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57780 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P2gUl-0005VU-Q7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:34:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P2gUi-0001uk-D0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:34:02 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:35691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P2gUi-0001rY-7L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:34:00 -0400 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so2175354ewy.0 for ; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:33:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nathaniel Flath Cc: Bernt Hansen , Jacob Mitchell , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Nicolas Goaziou 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 > 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