From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: comments after paragraph remove newline
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:50:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v6glj07.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8sC6VPtjSJdZ2ME49o3pT=z1wFmFVYqs-QVz9-rO3KMWw@mail.gmail.com> (Samuel Wales's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:51:05 -0700")
Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2/10/13, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Blank lines below an element belong to that element, by definition. So,
>> obviously, just add a blank line between "comments" and "# test" and it
>> will not be removed.
>
> You are saying that the comments get removed with the blank line
> because the blank line is considered part of the comments?
Is silence following music still music? ;)
Blank lines belong to the "comments" element, but are not commented
themselves.
> In my case, the proposed solution changes the meaning of the comment.
> For example:
>
> ===
> a
> b
> c
> d
> # e
> # f
>
> new paragraph
> ===
>
> If you make e and f a new paragraph, it is intended to be a new
> paragraph and no longer refers to the previous paragraph.
>
> I don't know the code, but is it possible that, instead of attaching
> blank lines to elements, blank lines can be an element on their own?
It's not a matter of "where to store it", but "what to do with it".
> Would that allow the needed flexibility and also add orthogonality for
> other purposes?
I don't think we need it. I have pushed a patch for that. Note that now,
blank lines before the comment and after it will accumulate.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-22 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-10 18:49 comments after paragraph remove newline Samuel Wales
2013-02-10 19:40 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-02-18 19:51 ` Samuel Wales
2013-02-22 10:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2013-02-24 20:33 ` Samuel Wales
2013-02-25 8:20 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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