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From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: an annoying indentation
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:30:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m23b0xnhy4.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 41c818190706120920m24756516y35406f2763e83b15@mail.gmail.com

----- William Henney (2007-06-12) wrote:-----

> Hi Leo
>
> On 6/12/07, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone else find the following annoying?
>>
>
> Yes, but...
>
>> *** heading 1
>> - item 1
>> - item 2
>>
>> Now hit tabwith cursor right before '-', it becomes,
>>
>> *** heading 1
>>     - item 1
>>       - item 2
>>
>
> ... I reported this to the list last week and Carsten pointed out that
> it was impossible to tell whether "item 2" represented a continuation
> of the same list or the start of a new nested list. Although I agree
> with him, I feel that a saner default would be to assume the former.
> After all, the same reasoning applies to headings, and they /do/ work
> how I would expect.
>
> Cheers
>
> Will

I think item 2 should be aligned to item 1 as the same level after TAB. If users
want a sublist they could easily use 'M-<right>' to do that.

However, when an item of the list is not aligned with its heading, the
quickest way is to use 'TAB'.

-- 
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-12 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-12 15:13 an annoying indentation Leo
2007-06-12 16:20 ` William Henney
2007-06-12 18:30   ` Leo [this message]
2007-06-12 16:35 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-12 16:42   ` William Henney
2007-06-12 17:49   ` J. David Boyd
2007-06-12 17:55     ` William Henney
2007-06-12 19:45       ` J. David Boyd
2007-06-12 18:33   ` Leo
2007-06-14  2:51     ` Jonathan Moore
2007-06-12 17:18 ` Rick Moynihan
2007-06-12 17:36   ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-06-14 11:39     ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-14 12:01   ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-14 14:45     ` Leo
2007-06-14 14:57       ` John Rakestraw
2007-06-14 15:02         ` pete phillips
2007-06-14 15:43           ` Rick Moynihan
2007-06-14 15:51             ` William Henney
2007-06-15  7:50             ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-15  6:14           ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-15 11:24             ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-06-15 13:44             ` William Henney
2007-06-15 14:13               ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-15 14:53                 ` William Henney
2007-06-14 14:59       ` William Henney

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