Re: Re: indentation for section headings vs bulleted lists

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Feb 20, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Nicolas wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Again, I'm very curious why org-mode's indenting code treats bulleted
>> lists differently than section headings.
>
> This is due to a combination of org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode.
> Actually, it's a a two-parts problem.
>
> Firstly, org-indent-mode only works by sections. That means the whole
> section gets the same indent prefix, whatever can be inside. Thus,  
> lists
> cannot be treated differently for now.
>
> Secondly, org-indent-mode is not indenting anything: it only fakes it.
> While this is fine for headings, this causes problems with lists,  
> which
> are depending on real indentation.
>
> Anyway, I'm on it. I'll post a patch as soon as I find and implement a
> decent way to solve this.

Hi Nicolas,
while it might be posible to add additional line-prefix stuff to
plain lists, you need to be careful about performance.
I wrote several (I believe 4) different versions of
org-indent-mode before behavior was reasonably consistent
and fast enough.

Cheers

- Carsten