[Orgmode] Re: an annoying indentation

[Jonathan Moore]

Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> ----- Carsten Dominik (2007-06-12) wrote:-----
> 
> >> *** heading 1
> >> - item 1
> >> - item 2
> >>
> >> Now hit tabwith cursor right before '-', it becomes,
> >>
> >> *** heading 1
> >>     - item 1
> >>       - item 2
> >
> > The question I have is: why would you press TAB if not to indent?
> 
> But in my case I use 'TAB' to indent. I feel 'item 2' should indent to
> the same level as item 1.
> 

I agree with Leo that this behavior is a minor nuisance.  But it is really bad
if one tries an indent-region on a plain list, because indent-region-function is
nil and you get things like:
         - item 1
           - item 2
             line 1
             line 2
             
             - item 3
               - ...

Working out a sensible place to indent to according to the style of previous
list markers does not seem that hard in principle.  I'd be willing to try coding
an option for this.