Re: org-adapt-indentation default should be nil [legibility 3/6]

2020-02-10 Thread Samuel Wales
On 2/10/20, Bastien wrote: > Hi Samuel, > > thanks for your feedback. > > Samuel Wales writes: > >> obviously, as a default not indenting text as you seem to propose is >> good for newcomers. that statement was in the context of accessibility. > > Perhaps, we will see! indeed we will get opini

Re: org-adapt-indentation default should be nil [legibility 3/6]

2020-02-10 Thread Bastien
Hi Samuel, thanks for your feedback. Samuel Wales writes: > obviously, as a default not indenting text as you seem to propose is > good for newcomers. Perhaps, we will see! > as for org as it is now, with a mixture of at least 3 indentation > styles in the wild, idk. What I observed is that

Re: org-adapt-indentation default should be nil [legibility 3/6]

2020-02-10 Thread Samuel Wales
[this is addressed to bastien] hi, if you are thinking of changing the default to indenting meta lines and asking for opinions on that: fwiw, if org /were starting out/, i would propose that meta stuff not be indented at all either. then the regexps everywhere could be reliable. and it reduces

Re: org-adapt-indentation default should be nil [legibility 3/6]

2020-02-09 Thread Bastien
Hi Texas and Adam, Adam Porter writes: >> Beginners are bad at making adjustments to keep heavily-indented >> prose legible. Thus the default should be nil. > > I think you have a better case for changing this setting. The default `org-adapt-indentation' can indeed be problematic. One problem

Re: org-adapt-indentation default should be nil [legibility 3/6]

2020-02-05 Thread Adam Porter
Texas Cyberthal writes: >> the default settings do not put blank lines between headings and >> their entry text, > > I don't know what this means. Plain Emacs behaves the same way > Spacemacs does in this regard. Insertion of a blank line after a > heading is voluntary but standrd. I don't know

Re: org-adapt-indentation default should be nil [legibility 3/6]

2020-02-04 Thread Texas Cyberthal
> the default settings do not put blank lines between headings and their entry > text, I don't know what this means. Plain Emacs behaves the same way Spacemacs does in this regard. Insertion of a blank line after a heading is voluntary but standrd. Insertion of a blank line between the current no

Re: org-adapt-indentation default should be nil [legibility 3/6]

2020-02-03 Thread Adam Porter
Texas Cyberthal writes: > #+begin_src elisp > (org-adapt-indentation nil) > #+end_src > > Adaptive indentation makes sense when using Org as a plain-text > database. It does not make sense when using Org for longform prose. > > In the former case, outline depth is important to reflect properties

org-adapt-indentation default should be nil [legibility 3/6]

2020-02-03 Thread Texas Cyberthal
#+begin_src elisp (org-adapt-indentation nil) #+end_src Adaptive indentation makes sense when using Org as a plain-text database. It does not make sense when using Org for longform prose. In the former case, outline depth is important to reflect properties such as inheritance. The code elements a