Request - make comments `bracket-dumb'

Request - make comments `bracket-dumb'

[Colin Baxter]

If I launch emacs -q, create an org-mode file and enter a comment as

# Blah blah  [[bib:blah]] blah blah.

then the  brackets close up such that only one pair is visible. If I
want both pairs visible then I have to write [ [bib:blah] ]. If I use
#+begin_comment then the bracket content is also highlighted, as if it
were active. Both pairs of brackets disappear if `bib:blah' is not present.

This seems to me to be contrary to what a Comment should be - namely a
piece of wholly dumb text. Could this not be achieved?

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter
m43cap@yandex.com
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Re: Request - make comments `bracket-dumb'

[Alain.Cochard]

Colin Baxter writes on Mon  6 Aug 2018 11:13:
 > 
 > If I launch emacs -q, create an org-mode file and enter a comment as
 > 
 > # Blah blah  [[bib:blah]] blah blah.
 > 
 > then the  brackets close up such that only one pair is visible. If I
 > want both pairs visible then I have to write [ [bib:blah] ]. If I use
 > #+begin_comment then the bracket content is also highlighted, as if it
 > were active. Both pairs of brackets disappear if `bib:blah' is not present.
 > 
 > This seems to me to be contrary to what a Comment should be - namely a
 > piece of wholly dumb text. Could this not be achieved?

There is a way to have [[bib:blah]] but I doubt you will like it:
insert a zero width space between the two opening brackets (see, e.g.,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2018-06/msg00426.html).

More generally, there does not seem to be a way to write totally
verbatim text (I hope someone can prove me wrong).

Regards


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Re: Request - make comments `bracket-dumb'

[Colin Baxter]

Dear Alain,

>>>>> Alain Cochard <Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr> writes:

    > Colin Baxter writes on Mon 6 Aug 2018 11:13:
    >> 
    >> If I launch emacs -q, create an org-mode file and enter a comment
    >> as
    >> 
    >> # Blah blah [[bib:blah]] blah blah.
    >> 
    >> then the brackets close up such that only one pair is visible. If
    >> I want both pairs visible then I have to write [ [bib:blah] ]. If
    >> I use #+begin_comment then the bracket content is also
    >> highlighted, as if it were active. Both pairs of brackets
    >> disappear if `bib:blah' is not present.
    >> 
    >> This seems to me to be contrary to what a Comment should be -
    >> namely a piece of wholly dumb text. Could this not be achieved?

    > There is a way to have [[bib:blah]] but I doubt you will like it:
    > insert a zero width space between the two opening brackets (see,
    > e.g.,
    > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2018-06/msg00426.html).

Thank you, I had forgotten about the zero-width space; although, true, I
don't much care for it.

    > More generally, there does not seem to be a way to write totally
    > verbatim text

That's a pity.

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter
m43cap@yandex.com
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Re: Request - make comments `bracket-dumb'

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

> If I launch emacs -q, create an org-mode file and enter a comment as
>
> # Blah blah  [[bib:blah]] blah blah.
>
> then the  brackets close up such that only one pair is visible. If I
> want both pairs visible then I have to write [ [bib:blah] ]. If I use
> #+begin_comment then the bracket content is also highlighted, as if it
> were active. Both pairs of brackets disappear if `bib:blah' is not present.
>
> This seems to me to be contrary to what a Comment should be - namely a
> piece of wholly dumb text. Could this not be achieved?

This is simply a fontification issue. Patches are welcome.

Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou