Re: [bug] org-do-emphasis-faces breaks with incomplete emphasis

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

still not what i am saying.  nefver mind.  thanks.

On 2/16/21, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> hi tim,
>>
>> tanks for your replies.
>>
>> 1.  the same problem occurs without any * in the buffer.
>
> It will occur with any of the markup special characters e.g. *, =, _, +, /
>
>>
>> 2.  the emphasis regexps are supposed to be limited to a few lines.
>
> Are they? What is 'a few'? This also won't work if you use
> visual-line-mode and don't use auto-fill (as your paragraphs are then
> just one long line).
>
>>
>> 3.  they are also supposed to not try to match dissimilar delimiiters.
>>
>
> Not quite sure what you mean here.
>
>> the problem is that
>>
>> hi =something
>>
>> stops all emphasis of all types in the entire rest of hte bguffer even
>> if the buyffer contains many lines.  this sems unusual to me.
>>
>> it does not break anything befofre it.
>>
>> so i think your hypothesis of what i am talking about might possibly
>> not match what i am talking about at all.
>>
>
> I'm not disagreeing with what your saying. I think the reason the rest
> of the file doesn't get parsed correctly is because the single markup
> character has made the syntax inconsistent and broken.
>
> The problem is I don't think there is a good fix for this which doesn't
> introduce other problems. If the regexp which does the matching is
> supposed to limit its search to just a specific number of lines, then
> perhaps it is broken. However, I'm not sure what 'a few lines' really
> means (2?, 5?, 10?). I also know from past experience that trying to
> define font-lock matches which work in such a way is complex, error
> prone and often results in a considerable performance hit.
>
> Bottom line, if you want to use the characters reserved for markup
> purposes as just plain characters, you have to somehow quote them or
> mark them as being 'verbatim' characters. I do think it would be useful
> to have something in the manual on this under the markup section.
>
> --
> Tim Cross
>


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