Hello, I am experiencing a change in behaviour regarding plain lists spacing,
spontaneous behaviour (empty file) is - this - this instead of - that - that (and many other probably related effects, like that TAB inside a list item does nothing at all in most cases, or need of being more than two empty lines after the end of a list item for M-RET to insert a headline), since some time ago I switched from Org-mode version 6.33f, installed over GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian to Org-mode version 7.7 on the same unchanged system, installed through ELPA from http://orgmode.org/pkg/daily/, tarball org-20111107.tar, then org-20111206.tar, following the FAQ step by step. (Incidentally, *there is something wrong with org-20111207.tar*, it has been truncated. It took me some time to figure out from the code that M-x package-install-file "Can't read whole string" was meant also for filenames *inside* the tar.) All the compile process went well (I just recompiled org-20111206.tar to include parts of the log, the previous time I had apparently innocuous errors, now only warnings are left). As expected, M-x locate-library org Library is file ~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20111206/org.elc I know *the culprit is org-blank-before-new-entry,* which yields, with the minimal .emacs included: org-blank-before-new-entry ---> nil whereas with emacs -q (by what I return to Org version 6.33f) it is the default: org-blank-before-new-entry ---> ((heading . auto) (plain-list-item . auto)) I could try to force that variable, but something must be going wrong somewhere in the installation, and I cannot figure out how to correct it the proper way. Has anyone an idea how to pin down where the real problem is? vincent ;------8<-------------------------- ; Minimal .emacs [2011-12-07 13:59] (blink-cursor-mode -1) (tool-bar-mode 0) (if (fboundp 'scroll-bar-mode) (scroll-bar-mode -1)) (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) (when (load (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/elpa/package.el")) (package-initialize)) (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) ; Where I have various contrib org files, among others. (setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/share/emacs/contrib/lisp" load-path)) ; End .emacs *Compile-log* extract ------8<--------------------------- ob-ref.el:69:1:Warning: defcustom for `org-babel-update-intermediate' fails to specify containing group In org-agenda-list: org-agenda.el:3557:26:Warning: `org-agenda-ndays' is an obsolete variable (as of Emacs 24.1); use `org-agenda-span' instead. In org-agenda-goto-today: org-agenda.el:6419:59:Warning: `org-agenda-ndays' is an obsolete variable (as of Emacs 24.1); use `org-agenda-span' instead. In org-agenda-reset-view: org-agenda.el:6504:36:Warning: `org-agenda-ndays' is an obsolete variable (as of Emacs 24.1); use `org-agenda-span' instead.