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From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: an annoying indentation
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:49:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bqfl83m5.fsf@adboyd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e163a28d8c0b99dea2429ff4337be90c@science.uva.nl

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> On Jun 12, 2007, at 17:13, Leo wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Anyone else find the following annoying?
>>
>> *** heading 1
>> - item 1
>> - item 2
>>
>> Now hit tabwith cursor right before '-', it becomes,
>>
>> *** heading 1
>>     - item 1
>>       - item 2
>
> The question I have is: why would you press TAB if not to indent?
>
> - Carsten
>
>>

Maybe the OP is used to using TAB to format text, as in a C or Java program.
TAB just 'does the right thing' in cc-mode (I think it is), so to some people
it becomes automatic to use TAB to keep the document looking good.

Not a good idea in this case, of course!

Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-12 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-12 15:13 an annoying indentation Leo
2007-06-12 16:20 ` William Henney
2007-06-12 18:30   ` Leo
2007-06-12 16:35 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-12 16:42   ` William Henney
2007-06-12 17:49   ` J. David Boyd [this message]
2007-06-12 17:55     ` William Henney
2007-06-12 19:45       ` J. David Boyd
2007-06-12 18:33   ` Leo
2007-06-14  2:51     ` Jonathan Moore
2007-06-12 17:18 ` Rick Moynihan
2007-06-12 17:36   ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-06-14 11:39     ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-14 12:01   ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-14 14:45     ` Leo
2007-06-14 14:57       ` John Rakestraw
2007-06-14 15:02         ` pete phillips
2007-06-14 15:43           ` Rick Moynihan
2007-06-14 15:51             ` William Henney
2007-06-15  7:50             ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-15  6:14           ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-15 11:24             ` Dmitri Minaev
2007-06-15 13:44             ` William Henney
2007-06-15 14:13               ` Carsten Dominik
2007-06-15 14:53                 ` William Henney
2007-06-14 14:59       ` William Henney

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