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From: Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr
Subject: Re: How to elegantly and effectively quote org fragments?
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 10:33:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21858.56912.830417.984657@frac.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj4vdpzc.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>


 > > I understand that the indentation is virtual; it is just that I would
 > > (ideally) expect for the quoted example to visually look the same as
 > > it does in an org buffer.
 > 
 > That's not possible.

I understand that now.  I'll stay disappointed about it :-)

 > > OK.  I had missed this footnote.  I will live with this, but am still
 > > surprised by this fact -- the SRC org block looks ugly to me.  When we
 > > enter [[xx]] (say) the brackets become invisible, so I had assumed
 > > that a similar mechanism could exist here; I guess there are
 > > advantages to the present situation that I do not see...
 > 
 > I am not sure about what situation you're talking about, fontification
 > or escaping mechanism.
 >
 > About the latter, the idea was to make it as little intrusive as
 > possible. In most languages, you never need to escape anything. Of
 > course, Org is an exception since many lines could conflict with
 > enclosing document.

To the extent that I understand the terminology, I was talking about
escaping mechanism: it would be nice if the escaping commas could be
made invisible and not using any space.

Thanks for the explanations.

a.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-25  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-20 22:20 How to elegantly and effectively quote org fragments? Alain.Cochard
2015-05-21 22:02 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-22  4:37   ` Alain.Cochard
2015-05-23 19:59     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-25  8:33       ` Alain.Cochard [this message]
2015-06-01 17:20         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-21 23:31 ` org-notify: can't define an org-notify-add Alain.Cochard

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