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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Request - make comments `bracket-dumb'
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 06:43:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t5ggknm.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23403.53055.898130.748869@frac.u-strasbg.fr> (Alain Cochard's message of "Thu, 9 Aug 2018 07:21:03 +0200")

Dear Alain,

>>>>> Alain Cochard <Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr> writes:

    > Colin Baxter writes on Mon 6 Aug 2018 11:13:
    >> 
    >> If I launch emacs -q, create an org-mode file and enter a comment
    >> as
    >> 
    >> # Blah blah [[bib:blah]] blah blah.
    >> 
    >> then the brackets close up such that only one pair is visible. If
    >> I want both pairs visible then I have to write [ [bib:blah] ]. If
    >> I use #+begin_comment then the bracket content is also
    >> highlighted, as if it were active. Both pairs of brackets
    >> disappear if `bib:blah' is not present.
    >> 
    >> This seems to me to be contrary to what a Comment should be -
    >> namely a piece of wholly dumb text. Could this not be achieved?

    > There is a way to have [[bib:blah]] but I doubt you will like it:
    > insert a zero width space between the two opening brackets (see,
    > e.g.,
    > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2018-06/msg00426.html).

Thank you, I had forgotten about the zero-width space; although, true, I
don't much care for it.

    > More generally, there does not seem to be a way to write totally
    > verbatim text

That's a pity.

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter
m43cap@yandex.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-09  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-06 10:13 Request - make comments `bracket-dumb' Colin Baxter
2018-08-09  5:21 ` Alain.Cochard
2018-08-09  5:43   ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2018-08-21 18:17 ` Nicolas Goaziou

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