[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-10 Thread cezar
Personally I do like: - this way of indenting a long line that extends to more than one line So an idea that comes to mind is, how about disabling indentation for lists and have a special way of editing a list item like so: - have your list content here up to a point where you press C-M-TAB

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-10 Thread Carsten Dominik
Are you talking about something like longlines.el? I am not sure if you understand what you mean. - Carsten On Feb 10, 2008, at 9:00 AM, cezar wrote: Personally I do like: - this way of indenting a long line that extends to more than one line So an idea that comes to mind is, how about

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-10 Thread cezar
Carsten Dominik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you talking about something like longlines.el? I am not sure if you understand what you mean. - Carsten I was suggesting another way you could keep the current formatting and also deal with the indentation (by disabling indentation for lists).

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-10 Thread Bastien Guerry
Hi Ceazr, cezar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How common is a blank line in a list item ? I'd say it's more common for a blank line to end a list item. FWIW I often use multi-paragraphs in a list item. I think it should be outlawed. Generally speaking, I think we shouldn't put too many

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On Feb 9, 2008 1:26 AM, cezar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this TODO: ** TODO Meeting with John Doe regarding the job interview some skills they would like - html - css - unix address: 102 str. Blah foo, CA phone: 111 I would like to somehow make org

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
Hi Eddward On Feb 9, 2008 11:02 AM, Eddward DeVilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know what I'd like, but I don't know if it's practical. Another possibility is to do like rst and require a blank line when ending a list entry. Again, I'm not sure that is reasonably workable in org-mode. But

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread cezar
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:45:53 -0600, William Henney wrote: Hi Eddward On Feb 9, 2008 11:02 AM, Eddward DeVilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know what I'd like, but I don't know if it's practical. Another possibility is to do like rst and require a blank line when ending a list entry. Again,

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
On Feb 9, 2008 4:17 PM, cezar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a terminator would be better for the last list element. Something like a blank line. I am not sure, just throwing ideas around. But how would one distinguish a blank line that ends a list from a blank line that separates paragraphs

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On Feb 9, 2008 4:50 PM, William Henney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 9, 2008 4:17 PM, cezar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a terminator would be better for the last list element. Something like a blank line. I am not sure, just throwing ideas around. But how would one distinguish a

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread cezar
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:50:04 -0600, William Henney wrote: On Feb 9, 2008 4:17 PM, cezar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a terminator would be better for the last list element. Something like a blank line. I am not sure, just throwing ideas around. But how would one distinguish a blank line

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
Hi Eddward On Feb 9, 2008 5:26 PM, Eddward DeVilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 9, 2008 4:50 PM, William Henney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are right, though, that it is the end-of-list marker that is important. On reflection, it seems to me that a beginning-of-list marker is not

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
Hi Cezar On Feb 9, 2008 5:41 PM, cezar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How common is a blank line in a list item ? I'd say it's more common for a blank line to end a list item. I agree that multi-paragraph list items are not that common. A quick random sampling of my own org files indicates about 3

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
Hi Cezar On Feb 9, 2008 7:33 PM, Cezar Halmagean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you are right. I should start using subheadings :) No, I meant that *I* should have been using subheadings instead of multi-paragraph list items :) Anyhow, I just found this in the manual:

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Cezar Halmagean
I guess you are right. I should start using subheadings :) Regards, Cezar William Henney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Cezar On Feb 9, 2008 5:41 PM, cezar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How common is a blank line in a list item ? I'd say it's more common for a blank line to end a list item. I

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On Feb 9, 2008 7:09 PM, William Henney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it causes problems to allow the same marker to be used at the start and end. For instance, consider the following: - - item one - item two - - point is on this line When I hit TAB, how is org to know whether the

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
On Feb 9, 2008 9:55 PM, Eddward DeVilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, I'm just trying to come up with something that does the job but is not an eye sore in the org buffer. I'm looking for something that visually looks like a natural footer or terminator in plain text. (And a footer

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On Feb 9, 2008 10:47 PM, William Henney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 9, 2008 9:55 PM, Eddward DeVilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, I'm just trying to come up with something that does the job but is not an eye sore in the org buffer. I'm looking for something that visually

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Everyone, I am personally not fond of separators, and we must be sure what their purpose is. As a means of terminating a list for export and folding, you can use empty lines when setting the variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists' discovered by Will. Or any text that is no linger

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-08 Thread cezar
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:24:39 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:58 PM, cezar wrote: Hello, I am using org-mode version 5.17a and I sometimes need to write some details on a task like: ** TODO something to be done notes about this task come here and they include a

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-08 Thread Carsten Dominik
I don't quite understand yet what you mean. Please try to explain again. - Carsten On Feb 9, 2008, at 1:29 AM, cezar wrote: On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:24:39 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:58 PM, cezar wrote: Hello, I am using org-mode version 5.17a and I sometimes need

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-08 Thread cezar
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:17:10 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: I don't quite understand yet what you mean. Please try to explain again. - Carsten On Feb 9, 2008, at 1:29 AM, cezar wrote: On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:24:39 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:58 PM, cezar wrote: