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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: FR: Fontify links even when in comments
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:46:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2oaokqulw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mqc5spp.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>

Hi Nicolas,

On 2015-02-23 at 14:32, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> 
wrote:
> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It would be nice to have an [[Org mode link]]
>>
>> # in a line that is [[commented]] and still
>>
>> be able to see that link. Currently, there is no visual 
>> indication that the link exists, although it still does work.
>
> It works as a convenience feature. However, I don't think we 
> should publicize it much, as a comment is first and foremost, 
> dead data.

To me comments are mainly things that don't get exported. I don't 
know what you mean by "dead", but comments are certainly "data", 
and data is not dead. Their utility and data density is reduced if 
they can't contain links (or I can't see that the link is there, 
which is sort-of the same thing).

When writing a document it is useful to leave informal notes to 
myself that say "see X" where X is an external file, or a section 
(or some code) elsewhere in this document, etc.

This can be done with "#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE :exports none", or 
"**SECTION :noexport:", but both of those are awful hacks when a 
single line or a few words are all that is needed.

  -k.
  

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-23 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-23 18:48 FR: Fontify links even when in comments Ken Mankoff
2015-02-23 19:32 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-02-23 19:46   ` Ken Mankoff [this message]
2015-02-24  8:13     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-02-24 12:53       ` Nicolas Richard
2015-02-24 14:10         ` Ken Mankoff
2015-02-24 14:37         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-02-24 15:05           ` Nicolas Richard
2015-02-24 19:57           ` Samuel Wales
2015-02-24 19:57             ` Samuel Wales
2015-02-24 20:02               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-02-24 20:26                 ` Samuel Wales

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