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From: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automatically
 switch to different list-character
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:58:55 +0100
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To: Livin Stephen Sharma <livin.stephen@gmail.com>
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I like this  idea, even as default, though I'm sure that some people
are doing things with org for which they would want to turn it off.

Scot


On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Livin Stephen Sharma
<livin.stephen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Context/Sample org content
> current
> **** unordered list
> + topA
>   + innerA1
>   + innerA2
> + topB
>   + innerB1
>
> proposed
> **** unordered list
> + topA
>   - innerA1 <--- '-' used automatically instead of '+'
>   - innerA2 <--- " " "
> + topB
>   - innerB1 <--- " " "
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> When creating nested/child lists ('innerX' items) under an existing list
> item ('topX' items),
> the current behaviour does not make an effort to change the
> leading list-denoter character (-,+,*).
> Could a feature be provided where creating a such a child-list would make
> this list's items begin with a different list-denoter?
> I find it helps readability (and hence efficiency when working with lists)
> when I manually (S-left, S-right) do this. If others agree, perhaps this
> could be provided as a built-in feature?
> I don't know lisp, (& it's increasingly looking like it may be time to
> *find* the time to learn JJ) so I can't code this myself.
>
>
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