Re: indentation for section headings vs bulleted lists

[Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 03:18:38PM -0300, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira wrote:
> 
> In fact, lists are indented like this, but indentation has meaning.
> 
> I remember some recent changes announced here in the mailing list to how
> lists are handled in org that made lists more powerful. It seems now that
> if some text is part or not of the list is controlled by
> indentation. Therefore, if you write
> #+begin_src org
> - blah blah blah blah
>   bleh bleh bleh bleh
> blih blih blih blih
> #+end_src
> then "bleh bleh bleh bleh" is part of the list (as if it were in the same
> line of "blah blah blah blah"), but not "blih blih blih blih". You can test
> this by exporting and seeing the result.
> 

I think I failed to explain the problem more accurately. In my original
post, I stated the following behavior:

* blah blah blah blah
  blah blah blah blah
  blah blah blah blah
** blah blah blah blah
   blah blah blah blah
   blah blah blah blah
- blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah
 - blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah

In the above example, there are *only* 4 physical lines of text. That
is, there are only 4 newline characters in the actual text file. The

#+STARTUP: indent

property, from what I understand, merely takes the 4 actual lines and
"soft wraps" them intelligently, so as to create a series of *fake*
newlines and indents, to give the illusion of multiple, neatly-indented
lines.

My problem was that org-mode handles section headings (*) properly, but
not bulleted list items (-) for some reason, choosing to indent on the
location of the bullet (-) itself, and not the beginning of the actual
leading text. I.e., instead of

 - blah blah blah blah    <--- a *single* line
 blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah
   - blah blah blah blah  <--- another single line
   blah blah blah blah
   blah blah blah blah

I want org-mode to indent it like this:

 - blah blah blah blah
   blah blah blah blah
   blah blah blah blah
   - blah blah blah blah
     blah blah blah blah
     blah blah blah blah

Again, this is a soft wrap issue. I'll try to use the latest git version
of org-mode and see if that helps.

-Linus