From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: Should comments break paragraphs? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:59:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87ip0byoqg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <51E443F6.2050104@arfer.net> <87mwpnfybn.fsf@gmail.com> <51E47BC1.7010808@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyzE3-0006ok-J5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:59:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyzE2-0006wz-Ar for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:59:07 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::22e]:60423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyzE2-0006wq-4j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:59:06 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id c11so250586wgh.1 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:59:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51E47BC1.7010808@gmail.com> (Christian Wittern's message of "Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:46:25 +0900") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christian Wittern Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hello, Christian Wittern writes: > Hmm. In my book, the concept of comments implies that they should be > able to appear on any line in the text, without altering the meaning > of the context it appears in. So to me, it would seem necessary to > treat comments as special, different from other elements. I don't think comments make much sense anywhere in Org (e.g., in an example block or in a source block). Also Org has no inline comment syntax (and I don't think it needs one: it is no programming language). So comments do not really fit in paragraphs. Last, but not least, it is also easier to parse it that way. Now, if you want to improve comments anyway, you can always provide patches. There's some non-trivial work involved, though. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou