Re: Suggestions on list create/edit commands:

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On May 12, 2006, at 4:39, T. V. Raman wrote:
>
> 0)     Enable backspace to outdent while creating nested lists,
>        this will make it extremely easy to close an inner list
>        and continue.

Can you describe that in more detail?

>
>
> 1)     orgtbl is nice as a minor mode. Why not go once step
>        further and enable org as a minor mode; it would be nice
>        to be able to create structured lists in email.

I don't know how this would be possible.  The org-mode keymap would 
take over, no key from the current major mode would keep working.  
Orgtbl used a rather complicated trick to function in tables while 
leaving things to the major mode outside tables.  I don't see how a 
similar trick could work for the whole file.

One could construct a restricted minor mode with some functionality - 
what stuff should be in there?

>
> 2)    At present, when you create a new list item, point
>         sometimes appears
>         to land at the beginning of the line, would be nice if
>         you could just start typing after creating the new item.

Example, please?

>
> 3)      Would be nice to be able to start a list without having
>         to create the first bullet by hand, but I dont have a
>         good suggestion for how to go about achieving it

I guess typing "- " is faster than anything else you might be able to 
come up with.

- Carsten