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I would like to have a double nested list in Makrdown Fill mode. For this I write in my markdown file

* item 1 * item 1.1: * item 1.1.1 * item 1.1.2 

Now I would like to add an * item 1.2: which should be aligned with * item 1.1:. However, emacs allows me, using tab, just the two positions, either:

* item 1 * item 1.1: * item 1.1.1 * item 1.1.2 * item 1.2 

or

* item 1 * item 1.1: * item 1.1.1 * item 1.1.2 * item 1.2 

I would need to use spaces, but that doesn't make sense in my opinion. Why is emacs not allowing me to align them properly, i.e. leave the right indentation out?

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    Emacs can do better, but by default markdown-mode doesn't. It uses the function indent-relative, which provides very simplistic indentation. Basically, it looks at the previous line and offers you any plausible tab stops it sees there. It doesn't consider any further context or language-specific details. Which means you're left to manually indent * item 1.2 in your example. To fix this will require providing markdown-mode with a more intelligent indentation function, or borrowing something from another mode. you can contact the maintainers directly: github.com/jrblevin/markdown-mode Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 18:41
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    @Tyler markdown-mode no longer uses indent-relative, but rather a customizable indentation function (markdown-indent-line, by default) which calculates indentation in context. I do see that indent-relative is mentioned in a docstring, so apologies for that. It's out of date and I'll update it. Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 23:48
  • @user8 The issue is that your list is ambiguous: different processors give three different answers. Markdown.pl sees only two list levels, because it specifies that nested lists should be indented by four spaces. For lists markdown-mode follows Markdown.pl, so if you indent lists by four spaces, or if you let markdown-mode handle the indentation for you (with C-u or C-u C-u prefixes) from the start, then it will work out as expected. Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 23:51

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