Re: list format questions

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

On  7Nov2007, at 6:32 PM, Eddward DeVilla wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a couple of question about list formatting.  Given the  
> example file:
>
> ==== sample.org ====
>
> * [/] investigate
>   - [ ] Q1 -- A1 \\
>         more A1
>   - [ ] Q2 is a really, really, long Q and needs to be described in
> excruciating detail.
>   - [ ] Q3
>
> ====================
>
> In Q1, the '\\' would force a line break when exported.  Should/can it
> force a line break when using M-q to wrap lines?  If I use M-q on Q1,
> the line below it wraps up to the same line as Q1.

I don't think so, I would not know how to do this.  Emacs uses
regular expressions to detect paragraphs, and these are matched
against the beginning of a line.

I think this would mean implementing our own
paragraph-filling functions.  Too much work for now...

>
> In Q2, if I use M-q or auto wrap to wrap it, the word 'excruciating'
> is indented so it aligns with the opening brace.  If I were to
> manually hit newline after anywhere before that and press tab to
> indent before continuing to type, it aligns with 'Q' in 'Q2'.
> Afterwards, the either indentation is maintained properly with M-q or
> auto wrap.  Is there an option I'm missing that I could use to make
> tab and M-q & auto wrap to favor the same alignment, preferably 'Q2'?
> I know list indenting was a can of worms before and I don't want to
> suggest new behavior if it would clash with the current behavior.

Same here - I guess this could in some ways be seen as bug in Emacs,
but I am not really sure.


- Carsten