# List Indenting Number of Spaces

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/list-indenting-number-of-spaces/17690>\
**Category:** Feature Request\
**Tags:** markdown\
**Created:** [July 11, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/list-indenting-number-of-spaces/17690 "2025-07-11T00:10:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![ehler](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/ehler/32/1592_2.png) [@ehler](https://community.bear.app/u/ehler)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/list-indenting-number-of-spaces/17690/5 "2026-01-10T14:31:51Z")

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For anyone else running into cases where this is an issue, there’s a regular expression you can run to fix this. Hopefully it does become a setting, but it’s a solution for now.

After copying the text out of Bear into a text editor:

Find `^( +)(?=[*-])`

Replace `$1$1` or `\1\1 `(Depending on the editor)

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