I have a note with several lines of text. I select the lines and do Bulleted List. Expected -> Each line receives a bullet Result -> First line receives a bullet Same result with numbered lists. Typora has the same effect. I am trying to migrate from OneNote and I am new to using markup, so perhaps this is working as intended? Is there a way to listify my text? Joplin 1.0.179 - Linux [image]

[image] First of all. Welcome. This is what my screen shows above your post and is so cool. :relaxed: Secondly, to answer your question, I'm almost certain you'll have to do it for each of them in app, but i do have a hacky way to do it since you're on Linux. You should have vim installed on your system. These steps should work. Install vim if not already available. Open a terminal cd /joplin/download/directory EDITOR='/usr/bin/vim' ./Joplin*.AppImage Look for what looks like a box with an arrow pointing up and right on your toolbar in Joplin. This should force Joplin to open a Vim terminal instance that can be used to edit your note. Make your way to the beginning of the second item on your list with your keyboard keys. Hit Ctrl+V to go into Visual Block Mode. Use your keyboard to move the cursor to the beginning of the last item. IMPORTANT STEP: Hit Shift+i to go into Insert Mode. Type - (single hyphen) and then Escape. Your list items should each have a hyphen with a space in front of them. Type :wqa to exit Vim and save your note to Joplin with every item formatted properly in a list format.

This work as intended, but maybe there’s something we can do. @CalebJohn did a similar change, where depending on new line characters the code button works differently. So if several lines are selected the action could indeed add a - to the beginning of every line. I’m pretty sure Laurent would accept a PR for something like that.

[image] bedwardly-down: First of all. Welcome. This is what my screen shows above your post and is so cool. :slight_smile: Secondly, to answer your question, I’m almost certain you’ll have to do it for each of them in app, but i do have a hacky way to do it since you’re on Linux. You should have vim installed on your system. These steps should work. Install vim if not already available. Open a terminal cd /joplin/download/directory EDITOR='/usr/bin/vim' ./Joplin*.AppImage Look for what looks like a box with an arrow pointing up and right on your toolbar in Joplin. This should force Joplin to open a Vim terminal instance that can be used to edit your note. Make your way to the beginning of the second item on your list with your keyboard keys. Hit Ctrl+V to go into Visual Block Mode. Use your keyboard to move the cursor to the beginning of the last item. IMPORTANT STEP: Hit Shift+i to go into Insert Mode. Type - (single hyphen) and then Escape. Your list items should each have a hyphen with a space in front of them. Type :wqa to exit Vim and save your note to Joplin with every item formatted properly in a list format. This is far too complex to be a viable solution for me, but I really appreciate you offering a suggestion - thank you! :slight_smile:

You're quite welcome. Like @tessus said, there may be a better way that the devs can work up in app, but I really wanted to showcase something I figured out recently that has been super useful to me. :smiley:

Seems that this issue has been about a while. This is one that was closed by the “stalebot” Select and convert multiple lines to list items opened 05:49AM - 27 Nov 18 UTC (UTC) closed 02:06AM - 29 Sep 19 UTC (UTC) [ivywong] ivywong Operating system Linux Application Desktop When I select multiple lines/paragraphs in the editor and click the "Numbered List" or "Bulleted List" button, only the first... stale

I’ve re-opened it and marked it as good first issue. Let’s see if somebody picks it up.

Convert lines of text to list -> Only first line is affected

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akyra 29 January 2020 12:53 6

This seems a feature request, going to open one instead

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Convert lines of text to list -> Only first line is affected

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