Re: orgalist list item spacing

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday, 14 Sep 2018 at 14:47, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> One thing I noticed is that if a paragraph line wraps so that the last
>> line has a number followed by a full stop, orgalist treats that as a
>> list item. It seems to me that text should not be considered a list item
>> unless there's a blank line above it. Ie, this is currently considered a
>> list item:
>
> [...]
>
>> Is this a bug, or a configurable option, or just the way it's supposed
>> to work?
>
> Long standing "feature" of org.  Unless you do require a blank line
> between items, it is impossible to differentiate between the start of a
> numbered item and the continuation of the previous item in this case.
>
> It's an annoyance sometimes but usually minor.

Huh, I've never seen this in org-mode proper. I just went and did a bit
of testing, and it looks like wrapping in org-mode involves some
cleverness where it "over-wraps" lines that would otherwise start with a
number, making sure the previous word always comes down to start the
next line. Orgalist isn't that clever, which I guess is by design, and
probably a good thing.

Eric