feature request: remove hanging bullet points

[daveriedstra]

This is a relatively small nit but one I come across all the time. Exiting a list with the default settings has a lot of friction. Consider the following state:

* item one
* item two[cursor]

in insert mode, pressing enter will add a bullet (and keep adding them)

* item one
* item two
* [cursor]

which you then have to clear with backspace or somesuch, but then pressing enter again to move to a new line adds an indent, which you also have to clear

* item one
* item two

    [cursor]

so in all, what would have been <enter><enter> in a word processor has turned into a janky sequence of finger acrobatics. I think the following changes would help:

while the cursor is at the end of the line on the last bullet point of a list (as in second example above) pressing <enter> in normal mode will

• add a new line (normal behaviour)
• without any indentation
• and the hanging bullet will be deleted

resulting in the following state:

* item one
* item two

[cursor]

[sudormrfbin]

which you then have to clear with backspace or somesuch, but then pressing enter again to move to a new line adds an indent, which you also have to clear

This behavior can apparently be controlled:

let g:vim_markdown_new_list_item_indent = 0

~~I have no idea how to deal with deleting the hanging bullet on Enter though, a fix would've been awesome.~~

Modified an answer from an SO post about automatically removing comment leaders for fixing the hanging bullet on Enter issue:

inoremap <expr> <CR> getline(".") =~ '\v^\s*(\-\|\*)\s*$' ? "\<C-u><CR>" : "\<CR>"

Put them in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/markdown.vim or set them up as an autocmd.

[milofultz]

Apologies resurrecting this zombie, but I'm trying to use @sudormrfbin's inoremap solution and ending up with this error:

Error detected while processing VimEnter Autocommands for "*"..function <SNR>90_MapCR:
line    8:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Press ENTER or type command to continue

I have very little vimscript knowledge so not really sure how to troubleshoot. Removed some of the escape slashes to see if I could isolate the issue, but couldn't figure it out. Same error shows up if I run vim -u NONE and add the map at the command line.