I need to add something here and think the syntax description should be
updated about that.
A "*" is allowed or recognized as a list item instead as a head only if
there is one (or maybe more) whitespace space in front of it.
But "-" and "+" also recognized as starts for list items without any
trailing whitespace in front of them.
Sidenote: As someone who writes software that parse org-content I would
suggest to make the whitespace in front of a list item mandatory even
for "-" and "+". It would reduce code complexity.
Am 29.04.2022 13:53 schrieb c.bu...@posteo.jp:
I was looking into https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html#Items
to find out which characters are allowed as "bullets" for unorderd
lists.
I cite from there
"An asterisk, hyphen, or plus sign character (i.e., *, -, or +)."
I wonder why * is allowed because * also starts a heading. So how does
a piece of software/parser decide if a line starting with an * is a
heading or a list item?
