Re: indentation for section headings vs bulleted lists

[Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:19:43PM +0100, Nicolas wrote:
> Firstly, org-indent-mode only works by sections. That means the whole
> section gets the same indent prefix, whatever can be inside. Thus, lists
> cannot be treated differently for now.

While I am not technically knowledgeable with org-mode's internals, it
surprises me that lists and section headings are treated differently for
org-indent-mode. I guess I won't be able to use lists for a while...
(I suppose the other option is to use real indentation, manually, to
break up a long list line into smaller chunks, but that solution to me
is just ugly and hacky. It would be great to get uniform behavior for
both sections as well as lists.)

> Secondly, org-indent-mode is not indenting anything: it only fakes it.
> While this is fine for headings, this causes problems with lists, which
> are depending on real indentation.

I did not know that lists were dependant on real indentation. Now I
know.

> Anyway, I'm on it. I'll post a patch as soon as I find and implement a
> decent way to solve this.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas

Thanks for taking up the challenge, Nicolas!

-Linus