Hello, I'm reporting this bug on Org mode version 9.7.6. It was in already in 9.5.
- here is a list with a sub list - like here ; and then text (<- this will be deleted) x 1) Trying to insert an other item above, by suppressing the "x", and hitting M-RET, if there's no text after, the command gets stuck in org-list-struct-apply-struct. file:~/.emacs.d/repos/org/lisp/org-list.el::1968 Very likely, needs to check if forward line returns 0 otherwise it will keep looping. #+begin_src patch - (while (< (point) down) + (while (and ( < (point) down) (not(> lines-left-to-move 0))) #+end_src file:~/.emacs.d/repos/org/lisp/org-list.el::1982 #+begin_src patch - (forward-line))) + (setq-local lines-left-to-move (forward-line))))) #+end_src 2) after a break, C-g, or if there is some text, the previous paragraph is killed and the list structure re/dis-organized. Cheers, Phil