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?

Thanks again!
Livin Stephen Sharma



On May 21, 2010, at 17:52:46 , Juri Krivov wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Livin Stephen Sharma <livin.stephen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Context/Sample org content
> 
> current
> **** unordered list
> 	 + topA
> 	   + innerA1
> 	   + innerA2
> 	 + topB
> 	   + innerB1
> 
> 
> proposed
> **** unordered list
> 	 + topA
> 	   - innerA1 <--- '-' used automatically instead of '+'
> 	   - innerA2 <--- " " "
> 	 + topB
> 	   - innerB1 <--- " " "
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> When creating nested/child lists ('innerX' items) under an existing list item ('topX' items),
> the current behaviour does not make an effort to change the leading list-denoter character (-,+,*).
> 
> Could a feature be provided where creating a such a child-list would make this list's items begin with a different list-denoter?
> 
> I find it helps readability (and hence efficiency when working with lists) when I manually (S-left, S-right) do this. If others agree, perhaps this could be provided as a built-in feature?
> 
> I don't know lisp, (& it's increasingly looking like it may be time to *find* the time to learn JJ) so I can't code this myself.
> 
> 
> There seems to be already a setting that can achieve this.
> It was discussed long time ago, here
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14793/focus=15214
> In org-list.el, there is variable org-list-demote-modify-bullet.  I have not tried,
> but it looks similar to your request.
> Juri