# Keep Org-mode list indents when wrapping text (with visual-wrap-prefix-mode)

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/keep-org-mode-list-indents-when-wrapping-text-with-visual-wrap-prefix-mode/3715>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [January 5, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/keep-org-mode-list-indents-when-wrapping-text-with-visual-wrap-prefix-mode/3715 "2025-01-05T14:15:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![orgroamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/54ee81/32.png) [@orgroamer](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/orgroamer)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/keep-org-mode-list-indents-when-wrapping-text-with-visual-wrap-prefix-mode/3715/1 "2025-01-05T14:15:49Z")

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I use visual-wrap-prefix-mode (Emacs 30 new feature), and for the most part it works really well. However when I’m using it with Org lists it’s very hard to distinguish between adjacent items because the indent of the one above is the same as the one below.

Is it possible to keep the same indent for all wrapped lines of one list item?

Actually I’d like to do this with indents in general (eg code blocks), not just Org lists, so if anyone knows how to do this that’d be very good.

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**Author:** ![akashp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/akashp/32/1383_2.png) [@akashp](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/akashp)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/keep-org-mode-list-indents-when-wrapping-text-with-visual-wrap-prefix-mode/3715/2 "2025-01-09T22:10:29Z")

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[https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2024-08/msg00618.html](https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2024-08/msg00618.html)

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**Author:** ![orgroamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/54ee81/32.png) [@orgroamer](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/orgroamer)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/keep-org-mode-list-indents-when-wrapping-text-with-visual-wrap-prefix-mode/3715/3 "2025-01-10T19:28:53Z")

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This actually wasn’t the issue I was having, but thanks for pointing me to that, now I discovered org-indent-mode which does exactly what I want.