[ENH] tabstop in bullet lists

[CircleCode]

when writing bullet lists, the first use of shoud move the cursor to the next tabstop and then the next use would decrease the bullet level.

say, for example, I have (| represents the cursor)

- |

after first tab, I want

-   |

and after next tab

    +   |

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the current behavior is
say, for example, I have (| represents the cursor)

- |

after first tab, I have

    + |

[felixhao28]

@CircleCode What's wrong with the current behavior?

[CircleCode]

@felixhao28 I will explain with my use case, which is pretty common I think.
I want text to start at column 0, 4, 8… so that a multi line block is homogeneous.
this gives:

-   first line
    second line of same block

With current behavior, I can't use tab to start first line at column 4 becaus it would move the bullet char rather that the cursor, s I have to use space several time to align text, which is neither convenient nor semantically correct (even if the result is the same).
I'd expect ME to support something like tab stops.

[felixhao28]

But you only need to adjust the spaces once per list, the indent is kept when you press Enter or Shift+Enter. Are you saying indenting the first line is tedious?

[deathaxe]

The solution in 3.0.0 looks as follows:

Hitting tab key after bullet was typed, automatically inserts enough spaces to place caret to next tab level.

1. Enter *

   *|*
   

2. Enter tab

   *   |
   

3. Enter tab again

       +   |