Re: [O] Confused about list indentation

[Leonard Avery Randall]

Guido Van Hoecke wrote:

How does org decide that 'He makes a really...' is not associated with
the current list item? What keystrokes are required to produce this
alignment or the one with the extra indentation?

Org determines what headline the text is associated with based upon indentation (see example below). If you simply press enter after a list item, the text is not  indented, and thus it is not associated with any list item. If you press tab before entering any text, it will indent to the level of the most recent list item. In order to have text associated with a higher level list item, you have to manually delete spaces after pressing tab or just manually insert the appropriate number of spaces.

Example:

1. List item
  - Lower level list item
This text is not associated with any list. Any list items after this will form a new list.
1. New list item 1
  - Lower level list item
    This text is associated with lower level list item
2. New list item 2
  - Lower level list item 2
  This text is associated with 'New list item 2'

Hope this helps,
All best,
Leonard