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[Orgmode] Re: an annoying indentation


From: Leo
Subject: [Orgmode] Re: an annoying indentation
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:30:59 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 Emacs 23 (20070611) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux)

----- William Henney (2007-06-12) wrote:-----

> Hi Leo
>
> On 6/12/07, Leo <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Anyone else find the following annoying?
>>
>
> Yes, but...
>
>> *** heading 1
>> - item 1
>> - item 2
>>
>> Now hit tabwith cursor right before '-', it becomes,
>>
>> *** heading 1
>>     - item 1
>>       - item 2
>>
>
> ... I reported this to the list last week and Carsten pointed out that
> it was impossible to tell whether "item 2" represented a continuation
> of the same list or the start of a new nested list. Although I agree
> with him, I feel that a saner default would be to assume the former.
> After all, the same reasoning applies to headings, and they /do/ work
> how I would expect.
>
> Cheers
>
> Will

I think item 2 should be aligned to item 1 as the same level after TAB. If users
want a sublist they could easily use 'M-<right>' to do that.

However, when an item of the list is not aligned with its heading, the
quickest way is to use 'TAB'.

-- 
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)





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