Preserve list indentation after RET

[steckerhalter]

I have this code now mapped on RET in markdown-mode:

  (defun my-markdown-ret ()
    "Preserve list indentation after RET in markdown-mode."
    ;; improved version of http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/14642
    (interactive)
    (if-let ((bounds (markdown-cur-list-item-bounds))
             (beg (car bounds))
             (end (cadr bounds))
             (indent (cadddr bounds))
             (text (buffer-substring beg end)))
        (if (= (- end beg)
               indent)
            (progn
              (kill-region beg end)
              (markdown-enter-key))
          (call-interactively #'markdown-insert-list-item))
      (markdown-enter-key)))

I think it is quite convenient... maybe you would like to integrate it in some way?

[steckerhalter]

@jrblevin nice, thanks for adding this

[jrblevin]

An update: I realized that this is not what you want to happen if you wrap lines yourself using RET. You might want a multi-line list item, for example. So, I added a new setting to markdown-indent-on-enter in 9e10d57: it can be nil, indent, or indent-and-new-item. You'll want it set to the latter:

(setq markdown-indent-on-enter 'indent-and-new-item)

[steckerhalter]

ok thanks for the notice