Juan Manuel,

YMMV depending on your needs and habits, but another workaround for this
problem would be to use visual-line-mode instead of filling paragraphs.

--Diego




On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 8:34 PM Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net>
wrote:

> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:
>
> > It seems that your approach would do a good job of helping you catch
> > cases that you don't want to be treated as lists.  I'm not aware of any
> > related functionality in Org, so I don't think you're missing something
> > there.
> >
> > Once you know that there is a particular spot that you want to prevent
> > from being interpreted as a list, you could add a zero-width space in
> > front of it:
> >
> >     (info "(org)Escape Character")
> >
> > I'm not sure if that's the sort of solution you're asking for, though.
>
> Thanks for your advice, Kyle. Adding the U+200B char. works fine to
> avoid false positives. Anyway, like Tim Cross says, that situation
> maybe should be considered as a bug. I think the ideal behavior would
> be for Org to consider a list only when there is a blank line above.
> But, well thought out, I am afraid that it would not prevent false
> positives, as one may want perfectly write a list at the beginning of
> the document, or start a plain paragraph with (for example) a digit + a
> period + a space...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
>
>