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From: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
To: Livin Stephen Sharma <livin.stephen@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-org-mode-help gnu <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automatically switch to different list-character
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:58:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTima-alwOaVSlS7_lPZozFJU81g5B_6Xir3UXLvJ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5FA5F8DA-901B-40AF-A35D-DB7FE8580B78@gmail.com>

I like this  idea, even as default, though I'm sure that some people
are doing things with org for which they would want to turn it off.

Scot


On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Livin Stephen Sharma
<livin.stephen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Context/Sample org content
> current
> **** unordered list
> + topA
>   + innerA1
>   + innerA2
> + topB
>   + innerB1
>
> proposed
> **** unordered list
> + topA
>   - innerA1 <--- '-' used automatically instead of '+'
>   - innerA2 <--- " " "
> + topB
>   - innerB1 <--- " " "
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> When creating nested/child lists ('innerX' items) under an existing list
> item ('topX' items),
> the current behaviour does not make an effort to change the
> leading list-denoter character (-,+,*).
> Could a feature be provided where creating a such a child-list would make
> this list's items begin with a different list-denoter?
> I find it helps readability (and hence efficiency when working with lists)
> when I manually (S-left, S-right) do this. If others agree, perhaps this
> could be provided as a built-in feature?
> I don't know lisp, (& it's increasingly looking like it may be time to
> *find* the time to learn JJ) so I can't code this myself.
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-21 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-21  5:54 unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automatically switch to different list-character Livin Stephen Sharma
2010-05-21 11:58 ` Scot Becker [this message]
2010-05-21 12:22 ` Juri Krivov
2010-05-21 14:07   ` [PATCH] Fix typo in org-list-demote-modify-bullet docstring Bernt Hansen
2010-05-21 15:16     ` John Wiegley
2010-05-21 15:49       ` Bernt Hansen
2010-05-21 19:14   ` unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automatically switch to different list-character Livin Stephen Sharma
2010-05-22  5:42     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-22 22:26       ` Livin Stephen Sharma
2010-05-23  5:11         ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-23 19:22           ` --RESOLVED-- " Livin Stephen Sharma

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