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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:51:38PM +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> Even if you move it to ox.el, this is not an acceptable solution. Think
> >> about the following example
> >>
> >>  - item 1
> >>
> >>    # with a comment
> >>
> >>  - item 2
> >>
> >> If you simply delete matching lines, you break the list.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, I would argue that this list should be broken, because with or
> > without the comment the items are separated by two blank lines.
> 
> On the other hand, visually, this list looks perfectly correct.

Actually I can think of at least one use case where you would want that
to be a list.  Say when drafting, you have a list of things you are
discussing, but you have yet to fill in the details and the comment has
some notes/reminder for tomorrow.  In this case, adding missing content
should not change the structure of your document, i.e. join two lists
into one.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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