Hi,
For once, I have to disagree: Numbers at the beginning of the line
inadvertently starting a list item is a bug.
It means you can mess up your exported document (it doesn't just
happen at M-RET) by just writing a perfectly normal text, and there is
no easy-to-remember escape. (I really don't like the invisible-space
workaround -- it's hard to remember how to insert it, and it's a
bizarre trick to have to tell newcomers.)
ReStructuredText provides a backslash-escape for this, even though its
more rigid structure reduces the chances of the error happening.
Could we borrow that trick, or would it conflict with something else?
E.g.
-------------------------------
- Several astonishing things happened in
\2007.
- And then there was another item.
- X
-------------------------------
Yours,
Christian
On 2/2/11 10:16 PM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
Hello,
Gregor Zattler writes:
adding a new list item via M-RET (org-insert-heading) may change
text in a previous list item, if this ends in a number on a single
line followed by a dot:
-------------------------------
- Several astonishing things happened in
2007.
- And then there was another item.
- X
-------------------------------
Note that " 2007." has changed to " 1." in line 2.
Yes, and unfortunately, I don't see any solution here. It isn't really
a bug: a line starting with white space, followed by a number sticked
to a dot is exactly the definition, regexp wise, of a list item (as
explained in `org-plain-list-ordered-item-terminator' doc-string).
That's why removing the dot solves the problem.
There are two workarounds I can think of, at the moment:
1. Use (setq org-plain-list-ordered-item-terminator ?)). But that will
affect every ordered list.
2. Insert some invisible char (non-breaking space " ") in front of the
item, or just after the dot. But this requires manual changes every
time the problem arises.
As a side-note, this problem isn't specific to recent versions of Org.
For example, in 6.33, use M-RET at X in the following example:
-------------------------------
- Several astonishing things happened in
2007. And then there was another item.X
-------------------------------
Regards,
--
Nicolas
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