Re: asterisk allowed for list items

[c.buhtz@posteo.jp]

I need to add something here and think the syntax description should be 
updated about that.

A "*" is allowed or recognized as a list item instead as a head only if 
there is one (or maybe more) whitespace space in front of it.

But "-" and "+" also recognized as starts for list items without any 
trailing whitespace in front of them.

Sidenote: As someone who writes software that parse org-content I would 
suggest to make the whitespace in front of a list item mandatory even 
for "-" and "+". It would reduce code complexity.

Am 29.04.2022 13:53 schrieb c.buhtz@posteo.jp:
> I was looking into https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html#Items
> to find out which characters are allowed as "bullets" for unorderd
> lists.
> 
> I cite from there
> "An asterisk, hyphen, or plus sign character (i.e., *, -, or +)."
> 
> I wonder why * is allowed because * also starts a heading. So how does
> a piece of software/parser decide if a line starting with an * is a
> heading or a list item?