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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Tom Alexander <tom@fizz.buzz>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Clarification on blank lines following list items
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 11:26:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875y4apdex.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkf3o211.fsf@localhost>

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> "Tom Alexander" <tom@fizz.buzz> writes:
>
>> I am noticing the list items have some very context-sensitive specific behavior regarding ownership of the trailing blank lines. I was hoping to get some clarification on this (namely, are my observations correct, am I stumbling across a bug, or have I not dug deep enough to suss out the real rules?). The org-mode documentation states:
>>
>>> With the exception of list items and footnote definitions blank lines belong to the preceding element with the narrowest possible scope
>>
>> but it does not state who ends up owning those blank lines.
>
> I can see how this explanation steered you into wrong line of thoughts.
> It should better be explained from the widest scope to the narrowest
> scope, not the opposite.

I tried to clarify things in
https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/worg/commit/ac9de71c1e73ef3a1d63e58e364fc55e83f0214e

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-16 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-19  5:30 Clarification on blank lines following list items Tom Alexander
2023-08-19  8:43 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-21  1:56   ` Tom Alexander
2023-08-22  7:47     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-22  8:26       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-24 18:46         ` Tom Alexander
2023-09-16 11:26   ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]

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