From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: keybinding for inserting simple item, simple plain list Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:10:27 -0400 Message-ID: <87mvp5ny4c.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <87twjdwkga.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87a8l55rh4.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoDS8-0000xy-FI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:10:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoDS5-000768-ML for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:10:44 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoDS5-00075x-CO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:10:41 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aoDS4-0001OH-7D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:10:40 +0200 Received: from nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com ([66.187.233.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:10:40 +0200 Received: from ndokos by nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:10:40 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Uwe Brauer writes: >>>> "Adam" == Adam Porter writes: > > > org-meta-return (bound to M-RET by default) does this when you're in a plain > > list. If you're not in a plain list, it inserts a heading. So just put the > > point in a list and it should do what you want. > > I know this. > > > > If you want a key to both create a plain list when you're not in one and add > > another item when you are in one, that wouldn't be hard to do. > > Yeah, I know I have such a function, but I hoped org-mode already had > that functionality. I've never felt the need: once I'm in a list, I use M- to add another item, but I always start the list with a dash and a space, typed explicitly: nothing to go wrong, nothing to remember. BTW, that last point is getting more important as I get older... [Aside: I find it more annoying to have to remember to type the requisite number of RETs at the *end* of the list in order to allow M-RET to create a headline afterwards: I invariably end up creating a list item that I have to go back and delete.] YMMV of course: I'm not saying you shouldn't have such a function. But I often wonder *why* people would want such a thing (and more often than I would like to acknowledge, people give good, cogent reasons why they do, which indicates to me that I often lack imagination.) -- Nick