On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > As I understand it, a fixed width section (BTW, is "fixed width section"
> the
> > official term for this?)
>
> Yes.
>
> > is defined as a line which is started by zero or more spaces, and then
> > a colon, *and then a space*, and then zero or more characters.
> >
> > :<spc>line1
> > :<spc>
> > :<spc>line3
> >
> > But many editors (Emacs including) likes to trim trailing spaces,
>
> As far as I know, this doesn't happen in Emacs, unless you specify it
> explicitly (i.e. in some hook).
>
> >  so when the file is saved, the second line loses its space:
> >
> > :<spc>line1
> > :
> > :<spc>line3
> >
> > Should the second line be parsed as a fixed width section too or not?
>
> I'd say yes.
>
> You may have noticed that exporters already treat that line as
> fixed-width section anyway. But this is inconsistent with fontification
> (and indentation) in the buffer.
>
> I've pushed a commit to fix this inconsistency in master.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
>
Thanks for clearing this up, I've also updated the Org::Parser Perl module.

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