From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug] org-do-emphasis-faces breaks with incomplete emphasis
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:01:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8vE1gUz5Mty3Zqq7FcOjW6Oq8b7tbPcgagioiOPhSnuzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8ts9D0B1fhNX8ALBX_amxX5-dC0+fs+kEM8x8cWw7prbw@mail.gmail.com>
to understant, perahsp try to look at the op and remove the line that says *hi*?
On 2/16/21, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi tim,
>
> tanks for your replies.
>
> 1. the same problem occurs without any * in the buffer.
>
> 2. the emphasis regexps are supposed to be limited to a few lines.
>
> 3. they are also supposed to not try to match dissimilar delimiiters.
>
> 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 am limited in coputer ue and will have to stop.
>
> tahnks for your replies.
>
>
> On 2/16/21, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> to answer your question: i expected it to just skip the non-emphasis.
>>> not emphasizing the rest of the buffer seemed quite unusual.
>>>
>>
>> I guess the problem is the same - how does org know when it is just a *
>> and when it is the beginning of some emphasis text? We could make it
>> that such markup only works on words, allowing the code to only consider
>> two * as emphasis if there are no spaces, otherwise treat as just a *,
>> but that would be inconvenient when you want to emphasis a phrase or a
>> couple of words. We could change the regexp to only consider it an
>> emphasis block if both markers are on the same line, but again,
>> potentially inconvenient and it would fail for those who use visual-line
>> mode where there paragraphs are just 1 long line.
>>
>> In short, can understand what your saying, but not sure there is a
>> viable fix which doesn't have a heap of other consequences. Basically,
>> if you want to use the 'markup' characters as normal characters, you
>> need to either escape them or put them inside a verbatim directive.
>>
>> --
>> Tim Cross
>>
>
>
> --
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>
> Please learn what misopathy is.
> https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-17 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-16 22:47 [bug] org-do-emphasis-faces breaks with incomplete emphasis Samuel Wales
2021-02-16 22:59 ` Tim Cross
2021-02-16 23:53 ` Samuel Wales
2021-02-16 23:57 ` Samuel Wales
2021-02-17 0:09 ` Tim Cross
2021-02-17 0:59 ` Samuel Wales
2021-02-17 1:01 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2021-02-17 1:06 ` Tim Cross
2021-02-17 2:42 ` Samuel Wales
2021-02-16 23:57 ` Tim Cross
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