Re: multiline description list, partial patch

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Eric,

I am assuming you are trying to do something like this:

  - a very long
    description item :: here is the explanation

This is not going to work properly with export.

- Carsten

On Sep 9, 2009, at 9:59 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that the bold face isn't applied to multiline description
> lists.  This patch [1] partially fixes the problem, but for some  
> reason
> I keep losing the bold.  Any thoughts/ideas?
>
> On a related topic, I'd like to consistently indent my decision list
> text, rather than sometimes moving back to the depth of the bold
> portion, does anyone else feel similarly and is this supported?
>
> thanks -- Eric
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index 39ef466..ed8d776 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -4703,7 +4703,7 @@ between words."
> 	       '("\\[\\([0-9]*%\\)\\]\\|\\[\\([0-9]*\\)/\\([0-9]*\\)\\]"
> 		 (0 (org-get-checkbox-statistics-face) t)))
> 	   ;; Description list items
> -	   '("^[ \t]*\\([-+*]\\|[0-9]+[.)]\\) +\\(.*? ::\\)"
> +	   '("^[ \t]*\\([-+*]\\|[0-9]+[.)]\\) +\\(.*?\n?.*? ::\\)"
> 	     2 'bold prepend)
> 	   ;; ARCHIVEd headings
> 	   (list (concat "^\\*+ \\(.*:" org-archive-tag ":.*\\)")
> @@ -16272,7 +16272,7 @@ which make use of the date at the cursor."
> 	  (setq column (current-column)))
>        ((org-in-item-p)
> 	(org-beginning-of-item)
> -	(looking-at "[ \t]*\\(\\S-+\\)[ \t]*\\(\\[[- X]\\][ \t]*\\|.*? :: \ 
> \)?")
> +	(looking-at "[ \t]*\\(\\S-+\\)[ \t]*\\(\\[[- X]\\][ \t]*\\|.*? 
> \n?.*? :: \\)?")
> 	(setq bpos (match-beginning 1) tpos (match-end 0)
> 	      bcol (progn (goto-char bpos) (current-column))
> 	      tcol (progn (goto-char tpos) (current-column))
> @@ -16372,7 +16372,7 @@ In particular, this makes sure hanging  
> paragraphs for hand-formatted lists
> work correctly."
>   (cond ((looking-at "#[ \t]+")
> 	 (match-string 0))
> -	((looking-at "[ \t]*\\([-*+] .*? :: \\)")
> +	((looking-at "[ \t]*\\([-*+] .*?\n?.*? :: \\)")
> 	 (save-excursion
> 	   (if (> (match-end 1) (+ (match-beginning 1)
> 				   org-description-max-indent))
>
>
>
>
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