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Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [O] Flexible plain list bullets
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:01:53 +0200

On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:18, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:
>> "Mark E. Shoulson" <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Attached is a patch that adds a customization variable for setting
>>> which characters you can use as bullets in plain lists.  Unicode has
>>> all kinds of pretty characters like ❧ or ☞ that would be good for
>>> bullets, why limit ourselves to just [-+*]?
>> 
>> This has been discussed recently of the ML.  At that time, many
>> developers didn't like the idea of Unicode bullets.  I still don't.
> 
> As a user I don't like this either. I realise I don't have to use it if
> I don't want to, but then this breaks the "Org format". I realise it is
> still not formally defined but many external tools have been developed
> which assumes these basic syntactic elements.
> 
> My personal reason for not liking this is, it makes it difficult for me
> to use tools like grep or sed interactively when there is a file with
> these fancy characters.

I think this is very well put.  Org must remain parsable,
and all basic syntactic elements should be pure plain text
and not configurable.

- Carsten

> 
> However, Nicolas' suggestion about a minor mode to add overlays sounds
> like a great idea to me.
> 
> -- 
> Suvayu
> 
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
> 

- Carsten






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