Re: - before *, special C-a with plain lists, and * to - conversion

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hi Scott,


On Aug 9, 2007, at 17:13, Scott Jaderholm wrote:

> Welcome back Carsten,
>
> I hope you enjoyed your well-deserved vacation.
>
> #1 is a bug, #2 and #3 are feature requests (both of which sound
> familiar; apologies if they've been mentioned before).
>
> 1. Type "- " at the beginning of a blank buffer and then press M-RET.
> On my system it stalls but if you press C-g it will insert another
> line with -, but leave the cursor on the first line. I think it's a
> problem with there not being a * first.

Fixed, thanks.

>
> 2. Should special C-a on plain lists work like it does on headings?

This sounds indeed familiar, so this has been discussed before.
What do people thing who use the special C-a for headlines?  Should
we have this in items as well???

> 3. Is there a way to convert back and forth between headings and plain
> lists? I often find myself creating a list of headings and then
> deciding I'd really like it to be a plain list, or visa versa.
> Handling indentation would obviously be important. Perhaps C-c - on
> headings and C-u C-c - on plain lists could be used?

Piotr has a way to convert from plain list to outline in org-mouse, but
not the reverse.  I guess we could implement such a command.  I'll put
it on the list....

- Carsten