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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: c.buhtz@posteo.jp
Cc: Emacs orgmode <Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: asterisk allowed for list items
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:15:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pml06q6c.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78aed94a0114fd29322e6da7581161ec@posteo.de>

c.buhtz@posteo.jp writes:

> I cite from there
> "An asterisk, hyphen, or plus sign character (i.e., *, -, or +)."
>
> I wonder why * is allowed because * also starts a heading. So how does a 
> piece of software/parser decide if a line starting with an * is a 
> heading or a list item?

Headlines always start at beginning of line and have stars followed by space:

* this is a heading
** this is also a heading
**but this is not (no space after stars)
 * this is a list item (star not at bol)

Would you be interested to contribute an example to
https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html#Items ?

Best,
Ihor


  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-29 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-29 11:53 asterisk allowed for list items c.buhtz
2022-04-29 12:15 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-04-29 12:21   ` c.buhtz
2022-04-29 13:49     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-04-29 14:26       ` c.buhtz
2022-04-30  5:37         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-04-29 12:17 ` c.buhtz
2022-04-29 13:04   ` Detlef Steuer
2022-04-29 13:22     ` c.buhtz
2022-04-29 13:59       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-04-29 13:54   ` Ihor Radchenko

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