Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-10 Thread Bastien Guerry
Hi Ceazr, cezar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How common is a blank line in a list item ? > I'd say it's more common for a blank line to end a list item. FWIW I often use multi-paragraphs in a list item. I think it should be outlawed. Generally speaking, I think we shouldn't put too many co

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-10 Thread cezar
Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you talking about something like longlines.el? I am not sure > if you understand what you mean. > > - Carsten I was suggesting another way you could keep the current formatting and also deal with the indentation (by disabling indentation for list

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-10 Thread Carsten Dominik
Are you talking about something like longlines.el? I am not sure if you understand what you mean. - Carsten On Feb 10, 2008, at 9:00 AM, cezar wrote: Personally I do like: - this way of indenting a long line that extends to more than one line So an idea that comes to mind is, how about dis

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-10 Thread cezar
Personally I do like: - this way of indenting a long line that extends to more than one line So an idea that comes to mind is, how about disabling indentation for lists and have a special way of editing a list item like so: - have your list content here up to a point where you press and th

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Everyone, I am personally not fond of separators, and we must be sure what their purpose is. As a means of terminating a list for export and folding, you can use empty lines when setting the variable `org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists' discovered by Will. Or any text that is no linger ind

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On Feb 9, 2008 10:47 PM, William Henney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 9:55 PM, Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In any case, I'm just trying to come up with something that does the > > job but is not an eye sore in the org buffer. I'm looking for > > something that vis

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
On Feb 9, 2008 9:55 PM, Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, I'm just trying to come up with something that does the > job but is not an eye sore in the org buffer. I'm looking for > something that visually looks like a natural footer or terminator in > plain text. (And a fo

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On Feb 9, 2008 7:09 PM, William Henney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But it causes problems to allow the same marker to be used at the > start and end. For instance, consider the following: > > - > - item one > - item two > - <- point is on this line > > When I hit TAB, how is org to know wh

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Cezar Halmagean
I guess you are right. I should start using subheadings :) Regards, Cezar "William Henney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Cezar > > On Feb 9, 2008 5:41 PM, cezar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How common is a blank line in a list item ? >> I'd say it's more common for a blank line to end a lis

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
Hi Cezar On Feb 9, 2008 7:33 PM, Cezar Halmagean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess you are right. I should start using subheadings :) > No, I meant that *I* should have been using subheadings instead of multi-paragraph list items :) Anyhow, I just found this in the manual:

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
Hi Cezar On Feb 9, 2008 5:41 PM, cezar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How common is a blank line in a list item ? > I'd say it's more common for a blank line to end a list item. I agree that multi-paragraph list items are not that common. A quick random sampling of my own org files indicates about

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
Hi Eddward On Feb 9, 2008 5:26 PM, Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 4:50 PM, William Henney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are right, though, that it is the end-of-list marker that is > > important. On reflection, it seems to me that a beginning-of-list > > marker is

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread cezar
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:50:04 -0600, William Henney wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 4:17 PM, cezar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think a "terminator" would be better for the last list element. >> Something like a blank line. I am not sure, just throwing ideas around. > > But how would one distinguish a

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On Feb 9, 2008 4:50 PM, William Henney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 4:17 PM, cezar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think a "terminator" would be better for the last list element. > > Something like a blank line. I am not sure, just throwing ideas around. > > But how would one distin

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
On Feb 9, 2008 4:17 PM, cezar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think a "terminator" would be better for the last list element. > Something like a blank line. I am not sure, just throwing ideas around. But how would one distinguish a blank line that ends a list from a blank line that separates paragr

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread cezar
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:45:53 -0600, William Henney wrote: > Hi Eddward > > On Feb 9, 2008 11:02 AM, Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know what I'd like, but I don't know if it's practical. Another >> possibility is to do like rst and require a blank line when ending a >> list entr

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread William Henney
Hi Eddward On Feb 9, 2008 11:02 AM, Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know what I'd like, but I don't know if it's practical. Another > possibility is to do like rst and require a blank line when ending a > list entry. Again, I'm not sure that is reasonably workable in > org-mode. >

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-09 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On Feb 9, 2008 1:26 AM, cezar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this TODO: > > ** TODO Meeting with John Doe >regarding the job interview >some skills they would like >- html >- css >- unix > address: 102 str. Blah foo, CA > phone: 111 > > I would like to somehow

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-08 Thread cezar
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:17:10 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > I don't quite understand yet what you mean. Please try to explain > again. > > - Carsten > > On Feb 9, 2008, at 1:29 AM, cezar wrote: > >> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:24:39 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: >> >>> On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:58 PM,

Re: [Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-08 Thread Carsten Dominik
I don't quite understand yet what you mean. Please try to explain again. - Carsten On Feb 9, 2008, at 1:29 AM, cezar wrote: On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:24:39 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:58 PM, cezar wrote: Hello, I am using org-mode version 5.17a and I sometimes need

[Orgmode] Re: list indentation

2008-02-08 Thread cezar
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:24:39 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:58 PM, cezar wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am using org-mode version 5.17a and I sometimes need to write some >> details on a task like: >> >> ** TODO something to be done >> notes about this task >> come here and