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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Mike Newman <mike@newmanfamily.me.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature in org-move-item-down
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:20:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dedc95e59c80a0394b16faf15562175a@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070318232622.76f83afb@newmanfamily.me.uk>


On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:26, Mike Newman wrote:

> The manual (section 2.8) says
>
> "Indentation also determines the end of a list item.  It ends before 
> the next line that is indented like the bullet/number, or less."

Yes, you are right, I am treating an empty line as a line with a large
indentation.

Suppose I did what you suggest, treating it as a line with no
indentation:

- one

- two
   - two a
   - two b
   - two c

- three

Now "- three" will not be treated as third item in the list
started by "- one", but it will be starting a new list...

Whatever I do, this is very fragile, and I would have to require
to never put any empty line between items.  What we have
now is at least stable.  I agree that making empty lines
always close all levels of items would be another stable
implementation.  Hmmmmmm.


- Carsten


>
> I think that a blank line has 0 indentation, therefore (by this logic)
> it should end a list item.  Clearly a blank line cannot start a list
> item, so it must end a list.
>
> I think the question is whether list items can contain blank lines.
> This may be established practice, but it was not what I was expecting.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:11:08 +0100
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2007, at 4:15, Mike Newman wrote:
>>
>>> It appears org-move-item-down treats blank lines as part of the
>>> preceding list item (whereas I use them to separate a list from
>>> subsequent text).
>>>
>>> So given
>>>
>>> - a test
>>> - b test
>>> - c test
>>>
>>> test
>>>
>>> with point on line b, M-x org-move-item-down gives
>>> - a test
>>> - c test
>>>
>>> - b test
>>> test
>>
>>
>> The problem with is this is following.  Suppose I made the item end
>> before the
>> empty line, as you suggest.  Then consider the following case:
>>
>> - a test
>>
>> - b test
>>
>> - c test
>>
>> If I now move "b" up, I get
>>
>> - b test
>> - a test
>>
>>
>> - c test
>>
>> I don't think there is a good solution to this problem - if you
>> know one, I would be interested.
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Mike
>
>

--
Carsten Dominik
Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek"
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403
NL-1098SJ Amsterdam
phone: +31 20 525 7477

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-17  3:15 Feature in org-move-item-down Mike Newman
2007-03-18  7:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-03-19  3:26   ` Mike Newman
     [not found]     ` <b71b18520703182004s36dc1102ibef10f215b135fb0@mail.gmail.com>
2007-03-19  3:22       ` Fwd: " Eddward DeVilla
2007-03-19 12:13         ` Carsten Dominik
2007-03-19  5:20     ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-03-19  7:37       ` Bastien

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