How to indent a soft wrapped line only for bullet lists in markdown

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1

I want to use Kakoune to write markdown files, but find that the soft wrap around around bullet points makes them harder to read.

Current Behavior:

List:
- example bullet
point 1
- example bullet
point 2

This is is what i would want to happen:

List:
- example bullet
  point 1
- example bullet
  point 2

I have been struggling to achieve this behavior with soft wrapped lines, by probably misunderstanding how regional highlighters work. I also tried this by editing the markdown.kak directly and it would nice to know if this is the best way to do this.

2

You may be interested in the -indent and -marker xx options for the wrap highlighter.

The -indent option makes wrapped lines start at the same indent level as the first line, turning this:

Here is a list:

  - here is a list item that has an extreme
amount of text in it
  - yet another very long list item, you'd
think I have said everything already

…into this:

Here is a list:

  - here is a list item that has an extreme
  amount of text in it
  - yet another very long list item, you'd
  think I have said everything already

The -marker xx option inserts xx between the indent and the wrapped text. It’s often used to add a little icon to make it clear that the text is wrapped, like -marker ↪, but you can just set it to two spaces (-marker ' '), producing:

Here is a list:

  - here is a list item that has an extreme
    amount of text in it
  - yet another very long list item, you'd
    think I have said everything already

…which looks quite nice.

Of course, with Markdown you can use semantic line breaks even in list items, which I find works much more comfortably with editors like Kakoune.

3

Thanks for the reply!

I tried this already but couldn’t quite figure out how to add this just for lists starting with a - or * and not just apply this to the whole buffer.

4

Yeah, it does apply to the whole buffer, but if the list-items require soft-wrapping, probably a lot of other things do too.

5

I think I need to formulate my question better.
How can i add the highlighter addhl wrap -word -indent -marker “ “ just when soft-wrapping lists and use addhl wrap -word -indent for everything else instead? (else longer paragraps look weird outside of lists) I tried looking at the markdown.kak, but didn’t understand how it uses regions.