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Re: [Orgmode] unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automaticall
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Livin Stephen Sharma |
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Re: [Orgmode] unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automatically switch to different list-character |
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Sun, 23 May 2010 03:56:06 +0530 |
Livin Stephen Sharma
On May 22, 2010, at 11:12:38 , Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> On May 21, 2010, at 9:14 PM, Livin Stephen Sharma wrote:
>
>> Scott, Juri,
>> thank you for your replies.
>>
>> 'org-list-demote-modify-bullet' is exactly what I was missing.
>>
>> JohnW, BerntH, Carsten,
>> AFAICT, the manual does not mention it?
>
> Maybe you could suggest a place in the manual where you would have liked to
> find this information? Maybe even a patch?
Section "2.7 Plain lists".
That was where I went looking for this information.
Perhaps between
a. the description of 'org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists', and
b. "The following commands act on items when the cursor is in the first line of
an item (the line with the bullet or number)"
I can't submit a patch,
but this is what I might have liked to see (the documentation-addition that I
might have submitted):
begin
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you find that using a different bullet for a sub-list (than that used for
the current list-level) improves readability, customize the variable
'org-list-demote-modify-bullet'. For example, this lisp in your '.emacs'
> (setq org-list-demote-modify-bullet
> (quote (
> ("+" . "-") ; sub-list uses '-' if cu
> ("-" . "+")
> ("*" . "+"))))
would result in such a 2-level list (which uses only '+'):
> **** Take 5!
> + Movies
> + Silence of the Lambs
> + My Cousin Vinny
> + Books
> + The Hunt for Red October
> + The Road to Omaha
instead looking like this (using '-' for sub-list)
> **** Take 5!
> + Movies
> - Silence of the Lambs
> - My Cousin Vinny
> + Books
> - The Hunt for Red October
> - The Road to Omaha
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
end
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Carsten
>