On Oct 5, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Womick, Don wrote:

> Carsten, thanks. That makes sense, once you know about it.
>
> I don’t think this behavior is documented. Can you add it the  
> manual? Might prevent a stupid question or two… J

Sure, it is now a footnote to the documentation of C-c '


- Carsten

>
> Regards,
> Don
> From: Carsten Dominik [mailto:carsten.dominik@gmail.com] On Behalf  
> Of Carsten Dominik
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 5:05 AM
> To: Womick, Don
> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [Orgmode] C-c ' prepends , to shell comment lines
>
> Hi Don,
>
> this is on purpose.  Putting a comma in front of such lines makes  
> sure Org does not consider them as special, for example when  
> searching for in-buffer options like #+STARTUP.  The same thing  
> happens for lines startin with a star, which Org could mistake for  
> an outline heading.
> The parsers for startup options and for outline structure do not  
> waste time on analyzing the structure of the document to distinguish  
> lines inside and outside code blocks.
>
> The commas admittedly look not so good in the Emacs buffer, but they  
> will be stripped for editing with C-c ', and also for export.
>
> Hope this explains it.
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Oct 4, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Womick, Don wrote:
>
>
> After running C-c ‘ (apostrophe) on a shell script between # 
> +BEGIN_SRC and #+END_SRC tags and returning to the org file using C- 
> c ‘ again, comments in the script have a , (comma) prepended.
>
> If I have
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC shell-script
> #! /bin/bash
> # some comments here... they'll be preceded by commas after C-c '  
> editing
> #
> ls
> cat myfile # inline comment here, isn't affected
> #+END_SRC
>
> and do C-c ‘ to pull it into an edit buffer, then C-c ‘ again to go  
> back to the org file, the result is
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC shell-script
> ,#! /bin/bash
> ,# some comments here... they'll be preceded by commas after C-c '  
> editing
> ,#
> ls
> cat myfile # inline comment here, isn't affected
> #+END_SRC
>
> Note the commas in front of each # (comment character).
>
> This seems to happen to # characters regardless of the editing mode…  
> I tried a Java snippet with the same results:
>
> Before:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC java
> # hash comment
> // java comment here
> public class MyClass() {
>     private String myVariable; // inline comment here
> }
> #+END_SRC
>
> After:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC java
> ,# hash comment
> // java comment here
> public class MyClass() {
>     private String myVariable; // inline comment here
> }
> #+END_SRC
>
> I’m running the following:
>
> Org-mode version 6.06b
> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-19 on  
> LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
>
> Thanks for org-mode… I’ve been using this amazing piece of software  
> almost as long as I’ve been using Emacs (a couple of years now).
>
> Regards,
> Don Womick
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