On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:54 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.
>
>
> There seems to be already a setting that can achieve this.
It was discussed long time ago, here
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14793/focus=15214
In org-list.el, there is variable org-list-demote-modify-bullet.  I have not
tried,
but it looks similar to your request.
Juri