Makes sense! Just wanted to see how others felt about this :)

Anyway thanks for the consideration, and for the tip
about org-element-at-point -- really did make this trivial to implement.


On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Calvin Young <calvinwyoung@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >    - 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)
>
> Maybe you can use org-element-at-point and advice org-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)
>
> I don't understand this.  Do you know M-{left,right}?  Again, you could
> advice org-return.
>
> In LO it removes the bullet.  Here you can use C-S-Backspace.  Bonus: it
> works everywhere!
>
> >    - 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
>
> This is like C-S-Backspace C-p C-e.  You could advice org-delete-backward.
>
> >    - It'd be nice of these rules could be applied to checkboxes as well
>
> It should be trivial to support using org-element-at-point.
>
> > 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.).
>
> OK...
>
> > Are there any options built in to org-mode that'd let me enable this?
>
> No.  And I doubt it should be.  But Emacs is /your/ extensible editor.
>
> --Rasmus
>
> --
> Need more coffee. . .
>
>
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