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From: "Tom Alexander" <tom@fizz.buzz>
To: "Ihor Radchenko" <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Description list with " :: " in the tag.
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:52:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3dfc2172-7521-4939-bc4c-a4959dd1af3a@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08d768a7-ac07-45cc-addf-3e406b3560ce@app.fastmail.com>

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I've written a patch (attached) with my proposed wording changes to the documentation, should I be starting another thread or does dropping it here work best? I do not have commit access so I'd need someone with such authority to do the last bit.

-- 
Tom Alexander

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From 20addaa5ab7d4e9420ade1125c2a337345ecdd31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Alexander <tom@fizz.buzz>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:19:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] org-syntax.org: Fix definition of description list tags.

Description lists support objects in their tags and they support the substring " :: ".
---
 org-syntax.org | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/org-syntax.org b/org-syntax.org
index 123fc232..3046e26c 100644
--- a/org-syntax.org
+++ b/org-syntax.org
@@ -470,9 +470,10 @@ BULLET COUNTER-SET CHECK-BOX TAG CONTENTS
 + CHECK-BOX (optional) :: A single whitespace character, an =X=
   character, or a hyphen enclosed by square brackets (i.e. =[ ]=, =[X]=, or =[-]=).
 + TAG (optional) :: An instance of the pattern =TAG-TEXT ::= where
-  =TAG-TEXT= represents a string consisting of non-newline characters
-  that does not contain the substring =" :: "= (two colons surrounded by
-  whitespace, without the quotes).
+  =TAG-TEXT= is one of more objects from the standard set so long as
+  they do not contain a newline character, until the last occurrence
+  of the substring =" :: "= (two colons surrounded by whitespace,
+  without the quotes).
 + CONTENTS (optional) :: A collection of zero or more elements, ending
   at the first instance of one of the following:
   - The next item.
-- 
2.42.0


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-13 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-08 17:25 Description list with " :: " in the tag Tom Alexander
2023-09-09  3:15 ` Max Nikulin
2023-09-09  9:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-10  4:22   ` Max Nikulin
2023-09-11 16:05   ` Tom Alexander
2023-09-13 22:52     ` Tom Alexander [this message]
2023-09-14 11:24       ` [PATCH] " Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-20  0:09         ` Tom Alexander
2023-09-20  9:00           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-14 11:25       ` Ihor Radchenko

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