Juan Manuel Macías writes: > Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> writes: > >> It seems that your approach would do a good job of helping you catch >> cases that you don't want to be treated as lists. I'm not aware of any >> related functionality in Org, so I don't think you're missing something >> there. >> >> Once you know that there is a particular spot that you want to prevent >> from being interpreted as a list, you could add a zero-width space in >> front of it: >> >> (info "(org)Escape Character") >> >> I'm not sure if that's the sort of solution you're asking for, though. > > Thanks for your advice, Kyle. Adding the U+200B char. works fine to > avoid false positives. Anyway, like Tim Cross says, that situation > maybe should be considered as a bug. I think the ideal behavior would > be for Org to consider a list only when there is a blank line above.
You can find some previous discussion of this longstanding and known behavior at <https://orgmode.org/list/874ndj13u5....@gmail.com/T/#u>.