From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Yates Subject: Checkboxes for description lists Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 07:05:47 +0300 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41891) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScqSj-0002wM-Aj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:06:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScqSh-0007g2-At for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:06:12 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:61985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScqSh-0007eD-4F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:06:11 -0400 Received: by yhr47 with SMTP id 47so1132095yhr.0 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:06:08 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, Ive been using org-mode for a while, and it is quite excellent! I have a question about checkboxes I came across recently. What is the reason for disallowing the commands for adding and toggling checkboxes on descripton list items (that is "- partA :: partB" list items) ? (attempting to do so results in the message "Cannot add a checkbox to a description list item") As stated in the manual this can be toggled using org-list-automatic-rules, but toggling this for checkboxes also changes the way checkbox statistics are updated. Would it be possible to "decouple" these two things, so that checkbox manipulation for description list items would be possible, but statistics would still automatically be updated, or is there a connection between the two that I have missed?