Re: Feature in org-move-item-down

[Mike Newman <mike@newmanfamily.me.uk>]

The manual (section 2.8) says

"Indentation also determines the end of a list item.  It ends before the next line that is indented like the bullet/number, or less."

I think that a blank line has 0 indentation, therefore (by this logic)
it should end a list item.  Clearly a blank line cannot start a list
item, so it must end a list.

I think the question is whether list items can contain blank lines. 
This may be established practice, but it was not what I was expecting.

Thanks

Mike

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:11:08 +0100
Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:

> 
> On Mar 17, 2007, at 4:15, Mike Newman wrote:
> 
> > It appears org-move-item-down treats blank lines as part of the
> > preceding list item (whereas I use them to separate a list from
> > subsequent text).
> >
> > So given
> >
> > - a test
> > - b test
> > - c test
> >
> > test
> >
> > with point on line b, M-x org-move-item-down gives
> > - a test
> > - c test
> >
> > - b test
> > test
> 
> 
> The problem with is this is following.  Suppose I made the item end 
> before the
> empty line, as you suggest.  Then consider the following case:
> 
> - a test
> 
> - b test
> 
> - c test
> 
> If I now move "b" up, I get
> 
> - b test
> - a test
> 
> 
> - c test
> 
> I don't think there is a good solution to this problem - if you
> know one, I would be interested.
> 
> - Carsten
> 


-- 
Mike