From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comment conventions, adding an explicit Header. Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:00:36 +0900 Message-ID: <87y4rszgyz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87d299eu1d.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87a94dd5hi.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87d2973f94.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mw88ha6o.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415012485 32253 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2014 11:01:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 11:01:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 03 12:01:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XlFNt-0000Bi-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:01:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33515 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlFNt-0002IY-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 06:01:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlFNV-00027R-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 06:01:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlFNO-0001Ei-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 06:00:53 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:37862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlFNN-0001EC-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 06:00:45 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1380A1C39A8; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 20:00:37 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 088FE1A27CF; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 20:00:36 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87mw88ha6o.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176258 Archived-At: Phillip Lord writes: > Well, I agree, it's not a particular disaster, and it is certainly one > option that I considered. However, the problem remains that org-mode > uses the lines before the first header to specify a set of variables, > which is something that I cannot do if the first line is a header. That's a design bug in org-mode, then. The obvious place to put those variables is in a variables block in the *last* page, as Emacs has been doing since before card-punched programs disappeared. > > Ugh. > > It's less ugly in the org-mode view of a file, where it just looks like > a normal org-mode header. I guess I'm just spoiled by ReST, where in many use cases viewing the file as plain text is close to optimal (the main thing I'd change is that I'd use // to delimit italics and ** for bold).