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From: Nathaniel Flath <flat0103@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:13:55 -0700
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To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, Jacob Mitchell <jacob.d.mitchell@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>

Carsten,
If you think this is acceptable I'll start working on it.

Thanks,
Nathaniel Flath

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>>>>> Carsten Dominik writes:
>
>> Or, alternatively, put it in with an option to turn it on (default
>> off, I think). And maybe we should after all limit it to a single
>> character to avoid confusion. Yes, I do realise that I asked for
>> several characters - but I am learning...
>
> What will then happen if the user is cycling bullets in a 100+ items
> list and hits alphabetic bullets? Besides undoing that move, there's
> nothing much that could be done then. Further cycling would become
> impossible.
>
> One idea would be to count items before cycling, and skipping
> alphabetic bullets for lists above 26 items. It has to be carefully
> implemented, as it could get very heavy on computations with large
> lists.
>
> Also, inserting new items in an alphabetical list should check if the
> 27th item has been reached and change bullets back to numbers if
> needed.
>
> I'm sure there are others subtleties that I can't think of right now.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Nicolas
>