[Orgmode] Re: struggling with simple indentation

[Rainer Stengele]

Am 26.10.2010 11:06, schrieb Nicolas Goaziou:
> Hello,
> 
>>>>>> Rainer Stengele writes:
> 
>> One thing that is annoying me still:
> 
>> Having
> 
>> ** headline
>>    - indent
>> text
>> ^
> 
>> and pressing "TAB" I end up with
> 
>> ** headline
>>    - indent
>>    text
>>    ^
> 
>> but would like to have
> 
>> ** headline
>>    - indent
>>      text
>>      ^
> 
>> Is this configurable?
> 
> Yes. The less intrusive way of obtaining this is to use C-j instead of
> RET after the "indent" line.
> 
> If you do not want lists to rely on indentation ever, you can set
> `org-list-ending-method' to `regexp'. In this case, only blank lines
> can end a list (see variable doc-string for more information), so
> "text" will get back into the item after pressing TAB.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Nicolas
> 

Thanks! C-j is best. I still struggle with indentation:

Sometime I do save some an email body text under an org item.
Pasting the text under "item" leads to

* heading
  - item
E-Mail body text line1
E-Mail body text line2
...

Now I cannot use C-j of course. How do I easily get

* heading
  - item
    E-Mail body text line1
    E-Mail body text line2
    ...

TAB as explained does not what I want.
Do you have an idea? "indent-region" does also the "wrong" thing.

Regards,

-- Rainer