Are you talking about something like longlines.el? I am not sure if you understand what you mean. - Carsten On Feb 10, 2008, at 9:00 AM, cezar wrote: > > Personally I do like: > > - this way of indenting a long line > that extends to more than one line > > So an idea that comes to mind is, how about disabling indentation for > lists and have a special way of editing a list item like so: > > - have your list content here up to a point where you press > and that indents your next line (or pointer) > > So pressing just TAB in a list content won't have any effect. > > Hope that helps. > > Regards, > Cezar > > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I am personally not fond of separators, and we must be sure what >> their purpose is. As a means of terminating a list for export >> and folding, you can use empty lines when setting the variable >> `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists' discovered by Will. >> Or any text that is no linger indented behind the bullet marker. >> >> But if I understand correctly, this is really about indentation and >> about M-q paragraph wrapping. >> >> I have thought about how to make aragraph wrapping to respect the >> indentation of a line after a plain list item and failed. I cannot >> figure it out. >> >> For paragraph wrapping we would really need a separator, and then we >> would need to add this separator to the regular expressions in >> `paragraph-start' and `paragraph-separate', obscure pieces of the >> Emacs formatting which do not work really consistent between >> different >> commands fill-paragraph and fill-region). EIther that, or I am not >> really able to comprehend how this works. >> >> About indentation, there are other possible conventions one could >> use. >> Right now, TAB will indent a line under a plain list item to beyond >> the item bullet. Independent of the current indentation. So it will >> indent lines with low indentation, and outdent lines with too large >> indentations. >> >> One could have different conventions. For example, we could do this: >> In the line after a plain list item: >> - when the indentation is 0 or when the line is empty, make TAB >> indent >> to under the line before, as if you intended to continue the item. >> - when the line is not empty and already indented, keep that >> indentation. >> >> I am not sure if that would be seen as more consistent and stable, up >> for discussion. >> >> - Carsten >> >> On Feb 10, 2008, at 6:05 AM, Eddward DeVilla wrote: >> >>> On Feb 9, 2008 10:47 PM, William Henney wrote: >>>> On Feb 9, 2008 9:55 PM, Eddward DeVilla wrote: >>>>> In any case, I'm just trying to come up with something that does >>>>> the >>>>> job but is not an eye sore in the org buffer. I'm looking for >>>>> something that visually looks like a natural footer or >>>>> terminator in >>>>> plain text. (And a footer ought to be able to be preceeded by a >>>>> header.) I know the significance of the '/' in xml, but visually, >>>>> it >>>>> doesn't look right to my eyes. Aside from the meaning in xml >>>>> code, it >>>>> does say end-of-list to me. If anything, it seems to connect the >>>>> preceeding and proceeding text, like this/that. The dashes draw a >>>>> dividing line. >>>> >>>> How about "-." ? >>> >>> Better. Still kind of cryptic, but more subtle. Actually, since >>> that's all that's on the line, it really doesn't matter what it is. >>> Font lock can hide it or gray it out. It could look like a blank >>> line >>> without the ambiguity. >>> >>> Edd >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >>> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode