Re: [Orgmode] Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists

[Carsten Dominik]

On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Nathaniel Flath wrote:

> Carsten,
> If you think this is acceptable I'll start working on it.
>
> Thanks,
> Nathaniel Flath
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Nicolas Goaziou  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > > > > > > Carsten Dominik writes:
> >
> > > Or, alternatively, put it in with an option to turn it on (default
> > > off, I think). And maybe we should after all limit it to a single
> > > character to avoid confusion. Yes, I do realise that I asked for
> > > several characters - but I am learning...
> >
> > What will then happen if the user is cycling bullets in a 100+ items
> > list and hits alphabetic bullets? Besides undoing that move, there's
> > nothing much that could be done then. Further cycling would become
> > impossible.

I think it would be appropriate in this case to simply
throw an error and let the user clean up with undo.

> > One idea would be to count items before cycling, and skipping
> > alphabetic bullets for lists above 26 items. It has to be carefully
> > implemented, as it could get very heavy on computations with large
> > lists.

We do not want that I agree.

> > Also, inserting new items in an alphabetical list should check if the
> > 27th item has been reached and change bullets back to numbers if
> > needed.

Again we could simply throw an error here and
let the user handle the cleanup.

> > I'm sure there are others subtleties that I can't think of right now.

Nicolas, would you *object* against a patch by Nathaniel that implements
this?  You are Mr lists now, so your green light will be needed.

Kind regards

- Carsten