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
> 
> 
>