Re: 'false' list item

[Diego Zamboni]

Juan Manuel,

YMMV depending on your needs and habits, but another workaround for this problem would be to use visual-line-mode instead of filling paragraphs.

--Diego

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 8:34 PM Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> wrote:

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

> It seems that your approach would do a good job of helping you catch
> cases that you don't want to be treated as lists.  I'm not aware of any
> related functionality in Org, so I don't think you're missing something
> there.
>
> Once you know that there is a particular spot that you want to prevent
> from being interpreted as a list, you could add a zero-width space in
> front of it:
>
>     (info "(org)Escape Character")
>
> I'm not sure if that's the sort of solution you're asking for, though.

Thanks for your advice, Kyle. Adding the U+200B char. works fine to
avoid false positives. Anyway, like Tim Cross says, that situation
maybe should be considered as a bug. I think the ideal behavior would
be for Org to consider a list only when there is a blank line above.
But, well thought out, I am afraid that it would not prevent false
positives, as one may want perfectly write a list at the beginning of
the document, or start a plain paragraph with (for example) a digit + a
period + a space...

Best regards,

Juan Manuel