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Erroneously marks 4 space indentations as warning for unordered lists

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When working with unordered lists, if I’m using 4 space indentations (as per the spec), it marks them as invalid with [markdownlint] MD007/ul-indent: Unordered list indentation [Expected: 2; Actual: 4].

Example:

- Base item
    - Indented item

Ordered lists, on the other hand, don’t get warnings for either 2 or 4 space indentations.

Since 4 spaces is what’s specified in the official spec, and it’s more that many implementations let you do 2 spaces, I feel this should be corrected to allow 4 spaces without warnings.

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Created 5 years ago
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DavidAnsoncommented, Sep 26, 2018

I don’t think it’s quite true that the spec calls for 4 spaces. For that and more discussion of this topic, please see https://github.com/DavidAnson/markdownlint/issues/141 and linked issues.

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DavidAnsoncommented, Apr 6, 2019

Follow-up: I’ve done this in https://github.com/DavidAnson/vscode-markdownlint/commit/33ee19a243cba0cee96f01075a92a524504b465a

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