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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The + character creating strike-through markup within in-line literal / code blocks
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:29:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3f3vykp.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20180625055244.63biztp4zjhgfhha@s70206.gridserver.com

John Magolske <listmail@b79.net> writes:

>> It happens because syntax coloring is a bit dumb. It uses regexps but
>> not the parser. However, if you try, e.g., to export the document, the
>> plus signs will not be treated as markers.
>
> Ok, just tried org-html-export-as-html and see it renders properly
> in html:
>
>     ... expression <code>(x +. y)</code> the <code>+.</code> is ...
>
> but I feel like there's a bug in the regex, that the =code= and
> ~verbatim~ marker characters should be able to prevent any other
> marker characters bracketed by them from causing highlighting.

Regexes recognize what is called a "regular" language which obeys a
context-free grammar. Although modern regexes are a bit more powerful,
it is still difficult (and computationally expensive) to have them
recognize context (e.g. figure out that we are now inside a verbatim
environment and so we need to do things differently).  That's why
context-sensitive grammars require parsers.

-- 
Nick

"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler

      reply	other threads:[~2018-06-25 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-24  7:57 The + character creating strike-through markup within in-line literal / code blocks John Magolske
2018-06-24  8:24 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-06-25  5:52   ` John Magolske
2018-06-25 12:29     ` Nick Dokos [this message]

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