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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Can someone dig the reasons behind emphasis regexp limitations?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 08:47:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt9sb3nv.fsf@localhost> (raw)


Org allows *emphasis* markers to be surrounded by spaces to some markup:
1. Before opening emphasis marker we can have
   space; -('"{
2. After closing emphasis marker we can have
   space; -.,;:!?'")}\[

(see org-element--parse-generic-emphasis)

I keep looking at these rules and remain confused, even though I do
remember that Nicolas stated good reasons for this.

But... Why "[" can be after closing marker and _not_ before opening
marker. It is counter-intuitive. And what about "]"?

Can somebody dig into that mailing list archives and figure out the
reasons why some characters are allowed and some now. I will then put
them into code comments or maybe even into Org syntax spec.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-19  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-19  8:47 Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-07-17 11:53 ` Can someone dig the reasons behind emphasis regexp limitations? Ihor Radchenko

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