From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Mats Kindahl <mats.kindahl@oracle.com>,
Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Resolve regexp ambiguity for item headers
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:14:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3042.1348078492@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Bastien <bzg@altern.org> of "Wed\, 19 Sep 2012 18\:51\:10 +0200." <87ehlyhs75.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > There's room from improvement, though: I find strange that "**** " is
> > a valid empty headline while "****" isn't.
>
> This I find natural.
>
> The prefix for headlines includes the whitespace, so the whitespace
> is needed for empty headlines too. Also, people might want to use
> lines matching "^*+$" (to separate paragraphs or whatever.)
>
> 2 cts of course,
>
The trouble of course is that the space is almost invisible, so it leads
to hair-pulling: "why the (&^&^$%&bleep*(^()*^* doesn't this work?"
OTOH, if it happens to you once, you tend to remember it for ever after :-)
I see your 2¢ and lower you to 1.5¢,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-19 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-10 13:20 [PATCH] Resolve regexp ambiguity for item headers Mats Kindahl
2012-09-10 18:24 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-09-10 19:35 ` Mats Kindahl
2012-09-12 14:49 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-09-19 9:14 ` Bastien
2012-09-19 9:19 ` Mats Kindahl
2012-09-19 13:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-09-19 16:51 ` Bastien
2012-09-19 18:14 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-09-21 8:56 ` Bastien
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