From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: Re: adding new plain lists item changes previous one it it ends in a number on a single lijne followed by a dot Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:04:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87fws2qjkz.wl%n.goaziou@gmail.com> References: <20110202192020.GF5402@shi.workgroup> <87bp2u6stl.wl%n.goaziou@gmail.com> <20110204161628.GC19946@shi.workgroup> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45551 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PlpJC-0002JD-DA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:04:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PlpJB-00053v-4t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:04:42 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:37927) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PlpJB-00053m-05 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:04:41 -0500 Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so3506022wwb.30 for ; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:04:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110204161628.GC19946@shi.workgroup> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode Hello, > I understand that blank-number-dot starts a plain list item. But in > my example the numbered list would be second level whilst the > unordered list would be first level (of indentation). Org-mode > rightly inserts a dash but why does it fiddle with another list item > of different (second) level when inserting an new first level item? > Is this necessary to in order to insert the next dashed item? Before applying any modification to a list, Org will check its integrity and correct it. It is necessary, as inserting an item can change bullets, which in turn can change indentation. And we want this just right. Even if it wasn't the case, Org would still recognize the line as an item start, and problems would arise sooner or later (for example upon exporting). > In my case I could see the change of "2007." to "1." because it was > so near it was also on the display. But this may happen with list > items which are not displayed and therefore one would not recognise > the damage... I understand this. But as it has already been told in this thread, "." as bullet separator is risky and you've just encountered the risk. I don't see a solution about it, but I'm all ears to any reasonable way to handle this. Regards, -- Nicolas