Unordered lists in Markdown don't respect hard line wraps

[jreichert]

The behavior between ordered and unordered lists in Markdown when using hard line wraps at 80 characters is inconsistent (that is, using set textwidth=80). I believe the behavior for numbered lists is desired, and the behavior for unordered lists should be changed to match. The current behavior is as follows (the attached screenshot is the easiest way to understand the difference).

When using ordered lists:

• List item shorter than 80 chars:
  • <CR> at the end of a line advances to the next line, inserting the next number in the list.
• List item longer than 80 chars:
  • reaching 80 characters, the line wraps and is indented. The text on the next line is justified to start immediately under the text of the line above (i.e. indented two characters). This will repeat for any number of lines.
  • <S-CR> at the end of the list item advances to the next line, inserting the next number in the list.
  • <CR> advances to the next line, does not add a new number, and keeps the 2-character text justification. This repeats for any number of times you press <CR>.
  • If after pressing <CR> you enter some text and then press <S-CR>, it behaves exactly as described above.

When using unordered lists (regardless of '-', '*', or '+'):

• List item shorter than 80 chars:
  • <CR> at the end of a line advances to the next line, inserting a new bullet of the same style as in the previous line.
• List item longer than 80 chars:
  • reaching 80 characters, the line wraps but is not indented.
  • <CR> and <S-CR> both advance to the next line but do not insert a new bullet.
  • if you manually edit the second line that was created by wrapping to insert two spaces of indentation, then the previous behavior is restored. Each subsequent wrap for that bullet item will maintain the two-character indentation, and pressing <S-CR> behaves as it does in the case of ordered lists.

In effect, it seems that ordered lists remember that they are in list context when hard wrapping, but unordered lists do not.

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let g:vimwiki_global_ext = 0
let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': '~/Documents/vimwiki/',
            \ 'syntax': 'markdown', 'ext': '.md', 'auto_toc': 1, 'auto_tags': 1, 'automatic_nested_syntaxes': 1,
            \ 'custom_wiki2html': '/Users/jake/.asdf/installs/python/3.10.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/vimwiki_markdown.py',
            \ 'template_path': '~/.EverVim/wiki/templates',
            \ 'template_default': 'def_template',
            \ 'links_space_char': '-',
            \ 'template_ext': '.html'}]
let g:vimwiki_markdown_link_ext=0
let g:vimwiki_valid_html_tags = 'b,i,s,u,sub,sup,kbd,br,hr, pre, script'

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Os: Mac
Vim: 801
Branch: dev
Revision: 942da42
Date: 2023-06-22 19:33:54 -0400

[tinmarino]

I cannot reproduce, it is all good to me

verbose set formatlistpat
  formatlistpat=^\s*\%(\(\*\|-\|+\)\|\(\C\%(\d\+\.\)\)\)\s\+\%(\[\([ .oOX-]\)\]\s\)\?
        Last set from ~/.vim/plugged/vimwiki/ftplugin/vimwiki.vim line 169

verbose set autoindent?
  autoindent
        Last set from ~/.vim/plugged/vimwiki/ftplugin/vimwiki.vim line 134

verbose set formatoptions
  formatoptions=tqclnj
        Last set from ~/.vim/plugged/vimwiki/ftplugin/vimwiki.vim line 172 
```

[tinmarino]

Please give the output of

verbose set formatlistpat
verbose set autoindent?
verbose set formatoptions