Re: Protecting comment lines from fill-paragraph

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Protecting comment lines from fill-paragraph
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 09:26:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2743709A-25A4-4D9F-9101-2F20616E8722@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocumm3cg.fsf@fastmail.fm>

I don't know how to fix this, unfortunately.

- Carsten

On Apr 24, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Matthew Lundin wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> Thanks to the addition your wonderful org-footnote, I increasingly use
> org-mode for all my writing. And just as I do in LaTeX, I like to use
> comment lines to insert notes in my text. I have a couple of  
> questions,
> however, about the behavior of comment lines in relation to
> fill-paragraph.
>
> I find that if I add a comment such as the following...
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Here is some text.
> # Here is a comment
> Here is some text.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> When I invoke fill-paragraph on lines two or three, line three is  
> folded
> into the comment line, as follows:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Here is some text.
> # Here is a comment Here is some text.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But when I invoke fill paragraph on line one, the text stays as it is.
> In other words, the comment symbol blocks filling into the preceding
> line, but not the line that follows it.
>
> The same behavior affects other comment blocks. E.g.,
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+begin_quote
> Here is a quote.
> #+end_quote
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> becomes...
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+begin_quote Here is a quote.
> #+end_quote
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> In short, would it be possible to prevent lines that follow comment
> lines from being folded into comment lines when fill-paragraph is
> invoked. The reason I ask is because I like to place comments in
> paragraphs while retaining the integrity of the paragraph for export.
>
> Thanks in advance for considering this.
> Matt
>
>
>
>
>
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