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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Resolve regexp ambiguity for item headers
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:14:52 -0400
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Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

> Hi Nicolas,
>=20
> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
> > There's room from improvement, though: I find strange that "**** " is
> > a valid empty headline while "****" isn't.
>=20
> This I find natural.=20=20
>=20
> The prefix for headlines includes the whitespace, so the whitespace
> is needed for empty headlines too.  Also, people might want to use=20
> lines matching "^*+$" (to separate paragraphs or whatever.)
>=20
> 2 cts of course,
>=20

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=C2=A2 and lower you to 1.5=C2=A2,
Nick