From: Livin Stephen Sharma <livin.stephen@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>,
emacs-org-mode-help gnu <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: --RESOLVED-- unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automatically switch to different list-character
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 00:52:18 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12EDFFA9-D1B9-45BE-8C9C-D695FD611F0E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2E226CFB-75FE-4B8C-84B0-8BD25D85965C@gmail.com>
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Carsten,
thanks for accepting it.
It sure feels **good** to have contributed a *little*!
:)
Livin Stephen Sharma
On May 23, 2010, at 10:41:50 , Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Livin,
>
> I have made the change to the manual much shorter, but moved the rest of this into the docstring of the variable.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Carsten
>
> On May 23, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Livin Stephen Sharma wrote:
>
>>
>> Livin Stephen Sharma
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 22, 2010, at 11:12:38 , Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On May 21, 2010, at 9:14 PM, Livin Stephen Sharma wrote:
>>>
>>>> Scott, Juri,
>>>> thank you for your replies.
>>>>
>>>> 'org-list-demote-modify-bullet' is exactly what I was missing.
>>>>
>>>> JohnW, BerntH, Carsten,
>>>> AFAICT, the manual does not mention it?
>>>
>>> Maybe you could suggest a place in the manual where you would have liked to find this information? Maybe even a patch?
>>
>> Section "2.7 Plain lists".
>> That was where I went looking for this information.
>>
>> Perhaps between
>> a. the description of 'org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists', and
>> b. "The following commands act on items when the cursor is in the first line of an item (the line with the bullet or number)"
>>
>> I can't submit a patch,
>> but this is what I might have liked to see (the documentation-addition that I might have submitted):
>>
>> begin
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> If you find that using a different bullet for a sub-list (than that used for the current list-level) improves readability, customize the variable 'org-list-demote-modify-bullet'. For example, this lisp in your '.emacs'
>>> (setq org-list-demote-modify-bullet
>>> (quote (
>>> ("+" . "-") ; sub-list uses '-' if cu
>>> ("-" . "+")
>>> ("*" . "+"))))
>>
>> would result in such a 2-level list (which uses only '+'):
>>
>>> **** Take 5!
>>> + Movies
>>> + Silence of the Lambs
>>> + My Cousin Vinny
>>> + Books
>>> + The Hunt for Red October
>>> + The Road to Omaha
>>
>> instead looking like this (using '-' for sub-list)
>>
>>> **** Take 5!
>>> + Movies
>>> - Silence of the Lambs
>>> - My Cousin Vinny
>>> + Books
>>> - The Hunt for Red October
>>> - The Road to Omaha
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> end
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>
>>
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>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-21 5:54 unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automatically switch to different list-character Livin Stephen Sharma
2010-05-21 11:58 ` Scot Becker
2010-05-21 12:22 ` Juri Krivov
2010-05-21 14:07 ` [PATCH] Fix typo in org-list-demote-modify-bullet docstring Bernt Hansen
2010-05-21 15:16 ` John Wiegley
2010-05-21 15:49 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-05-21 19:14 ` unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automatically switch to different list-character Livin Stephen Sharma
2010-05-22 5:42 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-22 22:26 ` Livin Stephen Sharma
2010-05-23 5:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-23 19:22 ` Livin Stephen Sharma [this message]
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