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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removing (modify-syntax-entry ?# "<")
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:11:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CF333969-9E04-4360-B817-AA5371BB1653@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hblfgkp1.fsf@cam.ac.uk>

Hi Leo,

I have now applied this patch - hopefully it will do the right thing.
Thank you for your persistence in trying to fix this old and super- 
annoying
bug.

- Carsten

On Jun 7, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Leo wrote:

> Hello Carsten,
>
> Setting a comment starter without a corresponding comment ender is
> problematic and the # creeps in mysteriously under auto-fill. For
> example, in my current running emacs, this happens almost certainly in
> all org files that has # in their header. The only (temporary)  
> solution
> seems to reboot emacs (which is painful and disruptive).
>
> If you try eval (forward-comment 1) at the beginning of an org file  
> that
> has some "#+..." it will move to the end of file (the whole file is
> regarded as one single comment). So when auto-fill a long text, it  
> will
> find the common prefix to be #.
>
> In addition, I don't think org mode has clear comment syntax or  
> ideas on
> what to do with it.
>
> I can't see any gain from (modify-syntax-entry ?# "<") so I am  
> proposing
> removing it entirely and get rid of this mysterious and annoying bug
> once and for all.
>
> The attached patch may (though I think it is quite safe) cause some  
> bugs
> but those will be fixable unlike the one mentioned above.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Leo
>
>
> diff --git a/lisp/org/org.el b/lisp/org/org.el
> index aae49fa..bb36ed8 100644
> --- a/lisp/org/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org/org.el
> @@ -4208,7 +4208,6 @@ The following commands are available:
>     (org-set-tag-faces 'org-tag-faces org-tag-faces))
>   ;; Calc embedded
>   (org-set-local 'calc-embedded-open-mode "# ")
> -  (modify-syntax-entry ?# "<")
>   (modify-syntax-entry ?@ "w")
>   (if org-startup-truncated (setq truncate-lines t))
>   (org-set-local 'font-lock-unfontify-region-function
> @@ -4237,7 +4236,7 @@ The following commands are available:
> 		 'org-block-todo-from-checkboxes))
>
>   ;; Comment characters
> -;  (org-set-local 'comment-start "#") ;; FIXME: this breaks wrapping
> +  (org-set-local 'comment-start "#")
>   (org-set-local 'comment-padding " ")
>
>   ;; Align options lines
>
>
>
> -- 
> CCL-USER> (if you fail to plan (plan to fail))
>
>
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- Carsten

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-18  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-07 11:12 Removing (modify-syntax-entry ?# "<") Leo
2010-06-08 16:46 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-18  7:11 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-06-18 10:04   ` Leo

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