Re: an annoying indentation

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Jun 14, 2007, at 17:43, Rick Moynihan wrote:

> pete phillips wrote:
>>>>>>> "John" == John Rakestraw <lists@johnrakestraw.com> writes:
>>     John> In response to which, Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     >> I think '- item 3' still should be aligned to '- item 2'. If 
>> user
>>     >> want to move the item deeper, 'M-right' can be used.
>>     >>     John> I agree with Leo -- or, rather, his proposal matches 
>> more nicely the
>>     John> way I work. I often have lists with some items annotated and
>>     John> others not annotated --
>> I agree with John and Leo. Pete
>
> Given that my initial suggestion of multiple TAB presses goes against 
> the Emacs grain, I'm also in favour of John of Leo as my lists aren't 
> structured in a way consistent with Carsten's proposal.

Maybe not really against Emacs grain, but it is certainly not
common to have such a command.  In fact, we have one, C-a, if
turned on with org-special-control-a.

The problem I am seeing really is that the structure of a list
in org-mode is *defined* by indentation.  So there is no
clean way to have TAB automatically do the right thing,
certainly not with indent-region.  So all this discussion
can be about is what a sensible default can be - and you
will have to create the structure yourself anyway.

In this way, I am now tending to agree that a flat list default
makes sense.

- Carsten