Re: [BUG] unexpected behaviour on sub-list

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Phil <pe@7d.nz> writes:

> I'm reporting this bug on Org mode version 9.7.6.
> It was in already in 9.5.
>
>     - here is a list
>       with a sub list
>
>       - like here ;
>
>       and then text (<- this will be deleted)
>     x
>
>   1) Trying to insert an other item above,
>      by suppressing the "x", and hitting M-RET,
>      if there's no text after, the command gets stuck
>      in org-list-struct-apply-struct.

Confirmed.
Potentially a duplicate of https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/v3up5d$oc4$1@ciao.gmane.io/

>      file:~/.emacs.d/repos/org/lisp/org-list.el::1968
>      Very likely, needs to check if forward line returns 0
>      otherwise it will keep looping.
>
>      #+begin_src patch
> - (while (< (point) down)
> + (while (and ( < (point) down) (not(> lines-left-to-move 0)))
>     #+end_src
>
>      file:~/.emacs.d/repos/org/lisp/org-list.el::1982
>      #+begin_src patch
>   - (forward-line)))
>   + (setq-local lines-left-to-move (forward-line)))))
>      #+end_src

Thanks for looking into the causes!
I will look closer into this later.

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