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Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets
From: |
Carsten Dominik |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:01:53 +0200 |
On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:18, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:
>> "Mark E. Shoulson" <address@hidden> 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 [-+*]?
>>
>> This has been discussed recently of the ML. At that time, many
>> developers didn't like the idea of Unicode bullets. I still don't.
>
> As a user I don't like this either. I realise I don't have to use it if
> I don't want to, but then this breaks the "Org format". I realise it is
> still not formally defined but many external tools have been developed
> which assumes these basic syntactic elements.
>
> My personal reason for not liking this is, it makes it difficult for me
> to use tools like grep or sed interactively when there is a file with
> these fancy characters.
I think this is very well put. Org must remain parsable,
and all basic syntactic elements should be pure plain text
and not configurable.
- Carsten
>
> However, Nicolas' suggestion about a minor mode to add overlays sounds
> like a great idea to me.
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>
- Carsten
- [O] Flexible plain list bullets, Mark E. Shoulson, 2012/04/18
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets, Nicolas Goaziou, 2012/04/19
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets, suvayu ali, 2012/04/19
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets,
Carsten Dominik <=
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets, Mark E. Shoulson, 2012/04/20
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets, Jambunathan K, 2012/04/20
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets, Bastien, 2012/04/20
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets, Mark E. Shoulson, 2012/04/20
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets, Bastien, 2012/04/20
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets, Mike McLean, 2012/04/22
- Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets, Carsten Dominik, 2012/04/20