On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:18, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> "Mark E. Shoulson" <m...@kli.org> writes: >> >>> Attached is a patch that adds a customization variable for setting >>> which characters you can use as bullets in plain lists. Unicode has >>> all kinds of pretty characters like ❧ or ☞ that would be good for >>> bullets, why limit ourselves to just [-+*]? >> >> This has been discussed recently of the ML. At that time, many >> developers didn't like the idea of Unicode bullets. I still don't. > > As a user I don't like this either. I realise I don't have to use it if > I don't want to, but then this breaks the "Org format". I realise it is > still not formally defined but many external tools have been developed > which assumes these basic syntactic elements. > > My personal reason for not liking this is, it makes it difficult for me > to use tools like grep or sed interactively when there is a file with > these fancy characters.
I think this is very well put. Org must remain parsable, and all basic syntactic elements should be pure plain text and not configurable. - Carsten > > However, Nicolas' suggestion about a minor mode to add overlays sounds > like a great idea to me. > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > - Carsten
