Re: [Orgmode] unordered list feature request: new sub-lists automatically switch to different list-character

[Livin Stephen Sharma]

Scott, Juri,

 thank you for your replies.

'org-list-demote-modify-bullet' is exactly what I was missing.

JohnW, BerntH, Carsten,

 AFAICT, the manual does not mention it?

Thanks again!

Livin Stephen Sharma

On May 21, 2010, at 17:52:46 , Juri Krivov wrote:

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Livin Stephen Sharma <address@hidden> 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 <--- " " "

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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.

There seems to be already a setting that can achieve this.

It was discussed long time ago, here

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14793/focus=15214

In org-list.el, there is variable org-list-demote-modify-bullet.  I have not tried,

but it looks similar to your request.

Juri