From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Baxter Subject: Re: Request - make comments `bracket-dumb' Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 06:43:09 +0100 Message-ID: <878t5ggknm.fsf@yandex.com> References: <87sh3riz0d.fsf@yandex.com> <23403.53055.898130.748869@frac.u-strasbg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42635) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fndjB-0008MU-N6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 01:43:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fndjA-00039q-QQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 01:43:17 -0400 Received: from forward101p.mail.yandex.net ([2a02:6b8:0:1472:2741:0:8b7:101]:57373) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fndjA-00038u-Dn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2018 01:43:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <23403.53055.898130.748869@frac.u-strasbg.fr> (Alain Cochard's message of "Thu, 9 Aug 2018 07:21:03 +0200") 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" To: Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dear Alain, >>>>> Alain Cochard 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG fingerprint: 68A8 799C 0230 16E7 BF68 2A27 BBFA 2492 91F5 41C8 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Since mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself. A. Einstein