Re: [Docutils-users] title underlines, indented bulleted lists and emacs contrib repeat-last-character

[Beni C. <cb...@te...>]

On 2003-02-17, David Goodger wrote:

> Is the proposed solution to the problems (empty comments) sufficient?
> Such cases *will* arise.  Perhaps a runtime setting, allowing or
> disabling this convenience, would be appropriate.  But that raises
> issues too:
>
>     User A, who writes lists indented (and their config file is set up
>     to allow it), sends a file to user B, who doesn't (and their
>     config file disables indented lists).  The result of processing by
>     the two users will be different.
>
That's really bad.  It means there will be two dialects of reST and you
can't exchange files safely.  If you are going to allow both, then allow
both always.

> It may seem minor, but it adds ambiguity to the parser, which is bad.
>
Agreed.  Lately I'm starting to believe that some source variations belong
in the editor.  [For example, I'm trying to envision a system for
translating python source code into other languages based on identifier
replacement by the editor.  That should work acceptably(?) for both
keywords and the library, even 3-rd party ones.]

Which gave me this idea on handle indented lists (I personally prefer them
indented and perhaps without empty lines): let emacs do it.  All reST
documents on disk retain their current format; emacs' reST mode will have
options to indent lists (only visually), hide empty lines in some
contexts, etc...  Of course somebody has to write this mode and it doesn't
scratch badly enough for me to do so yet :-).

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Beni Cherniavsky <cb...@tx...>

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