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From: Calvin Young <calvinwyoung@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Emulating list functionality from traditional GUI editors
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:14:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANniJExEWjJVEi6Q8duNU8VQPZ+q4aL2_SeBGhwXWwccuYDKeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi all,

I've been using org-mode for a while now, and it's been life-changing in
terms of how I keep organized. However, there's still one thing I miss from
traditional note-taking apps when working with lists. Specifically, I'd
like to enable the following behavior:

   - If the cursor is at the end of a list item, then "Return" should
   insert a new list item (i.e., automatically perform org-meta-return)
   - If the cursor is at the beginning of an empty list item, then "Return"
   should outdent the list item (or remove it if it's already at the
   outer-most indentation level)
   - If the cursor is at the beginning of an empty list item, then
   "Backspace" should delete the list item and move my cursor to the end of
   the previous list item
   - It'd be nice of these rules could be applied to checkboxes as well

What I'm describing is really just the default behavior around bulleted /
numbered lists in other GUI editors (e.g., Google Docs, Gmail, OSX Notes,
etc.). Are there any options built in to org-mode that'd let me enable this?

Best,
Calvin

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next             reply	other threads:[~2014-12-11  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-11  8:14 Calvin Young [this message]
2014-12-11 19:48 ` Emulating list functionality from traditional GUI editors Rasmus
2014-12-12  4:48   ` Calvin Young
2014-12-12  8:37     ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-12-13  9:47       ` Calvin Young
2014-12-11 17:05 Calvin Young
2014-12-11 17:34 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-12-11 17:41   ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-12-11 18:19   ` Calvin Young
2014-12-11 18:44     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo

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