I fully support taking blank line based line-wrapping approach and agree with Zbyszek's suggested indentation approach as well. I am not sure why they didn't occur to me at the time but they are certainly a more effective and widely adopted approaches to the structured text problem.

I suppose here is where I should volunteer to update the patch file...


Re: Bike-shedding

>dash '-' has special meaning in brackets:

Good catch, I had intended on '-' being a valid list item character. It clearly needs to be escaped. Not that it would matter given your proposed alternative.

>>  if(list_match):
>Parenthesis unnecessary.

In my defense I have the sadistic pleasure of coding in PHP where they are necessary for 8 hours a day for my day job. I can only apologize profusely for my offense and beg for forgiveness :)

>> lines = list()
>Why not just 'lines = []'?

Not to get off topic, but I happen to like list() and dict() instead of [] and {} for empty collections. If there are non-religious reasons for avoiding this practice I'll consider it. I don't want to invoke a holy war here, just wondering if there are practical reasons.

>One a side note: due to #13041 the terminal width is normally stuck
at 80 chars.

Not a good reason to remove the flexibility from the implementation I don't think.