Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-22 Thread Mike McLean
On Apr 20, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Bastien wrote: Don't underestimate the Unpredictable -- I'm sure if you write something with overlays and funny Unicode chars for list bullets people will start using it. Speaking for me, I'd be curious to test it! Speaking of unpredictable; Emacs 24 now

Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-20 Thread Bastien
Hi Mark, I agree with Nicolas that a solution based on overlays would be better. I also agree with you that there are many areas where we let the users modify the content of Org files in a way that makes them unparsable in a systematic manner. This is always a trade-off: user flexibility vs a

Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-20 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Apr 20, 2012, at 6:19 AM, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: I guess. I spoke with someone on the IRC channel about this too, the basic idea being that the Org format should be stable, so the same file won't parse or behave differently on different installations. There's something to be said

Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-20 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
On 04/20/2012 09:38 AM, Bastien wrote: Hi Mark, I agree with Nicolas that a solution based on overlays would be better. Probably, though very possibly not worth it. I also agree with you that there are many areas where we let the users modify the content of Org files in a way that makes

Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-20 Thread Bastien
Hi Mark, Mark E. Shoulson m...@kli.org writes: I'd offer to write a patch for some of the more obvious ones, to free up that much time from others, but it would be so small, it would probably take as long for someone to look over my patch as to write it themselves, so it wouldn't save

Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-19 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Mark E. Shoulson m...@kli.org writes: Attached is a patch that adds a customization variable for setting which characters you can use as bullets in plain lists. Unicode has all kinds of pretty characters like ❧ or ☞ that would be good for bullets, why limit ourselves to just [-+*]?

Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-19 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Mark, On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:18, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: Mark E. Shoulson m...@kli.org writes: Attached is a patch that adds a customization variable for setting which characters you can use as bullets in plain lists.  Unicode has all kinds of pretty characters like

Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-19 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote: Hi Mark, On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:18, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: Mark E. Shoulson m...@kli.org writes: Attached is a patch that adds a customization variable for setting which characters you can use as bullets in plain

Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-19 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
I guess. I spoke with someone on the IRC channel about this too, the basic idea being that the Org format should be stable, so the same file won't parse or behave differently on different installations. There's something to be said for that, but there are a fair number of customizable

Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-19 Thread Jambunathan K
Mark E. Shoulson m...@kli.org writes: else reconsider my patch Contributions to Org/Emacs requires copyright assignments. Search for FSF in the following page: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html I am wondering: Why a overlay solution will not work for you? Why do you need Unicode

[O] Flexible plain list bullets

2012-04-18 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
Attached is a patch that adds a customization variable for setting which characters you can use as bullets in plain lists. Unicode has all kinds of pretty characters like or that would be good for bullets, why limit ourselves to just [-+*]? The variable's "set"