On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:15:10AM EDT, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2006-08-18, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [help creating numbered and bulleted lists in Vim] > > For numbered lists, > > set fo+=n > > For bulleted lists using '-', > > set com+=fb:- > > or '*', > > set com+=fb:* > > but those should already be part of the default 'comments' option > unless you have changed it. (Odd that numbered lists and bulleted > lists use different options.) > See > > :help 'fo' > :help 'com' > > I also have '2' as part of my 'formatoptions' string. I don't think > it affects lists, but you might try it if those other settings don't > work as you'd like them to. > Looks very promising.
I'm three hours behind/ahead of you (EST) .. so it's bedtime for me .. Main thing that I have to figure out is a simple way to get back to column 1 when starting a new list item. When I am done entering item #1, I need to type "2." in columns 1 and 2 and if I just hit enter to start a new line, Vim jumps to column 4. So I escape back to command mode .. Vim moves the cursor to column 1 .. I hit "i" .. Also, I created a ten-item list and the text in item #10 and items #1 to #9 is not aligned. So I select the column that has the space that separated 1. .. 2. .. from the text <Ctrl-V> .. yank it .. and hit "p" causing Vim to indent the text in items 1-9 by an additional column. Need to check the help files .. see if there's a better way. Lastly.. I need to check what happens with fo+=a .. see if this plays well with automatic formatting of paragraphs. Hopefully Vim will reflow text without losing track of the list indent. Thank you very much..!!!! cga
