Re: [Orgmode] Feature in org-move-item-down

[Carsten Dominik]

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 <address@hidden> 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

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