Re: Re: Blank lines in literal html

[Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>]

Bastien wrote:
> Hi Wanrong,
>
> Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Finally, I decided to learn some elisp debugging techniques and as a
>> practice, it seems I found the bug and fixed it with this patch (against
>> org.el in 5.16b)
>>
>> @@ -24437,7 +24437,7 @@
>>           (when (re-search-backward
>>              "\\(<p>\\)\\([ \t\r\n]*\\)\\=" (- (point) 100) t)
>>         (setq par (match-string 1))
>> -        (replace-match "\\2\n"))
>> +        (replace-match ""))
>>           (insert line "\n")
>>           (while (and lines
>>               (get-text-property 0 'org-protected (car lines)))
>>
>> I am not completely sure whether this is the right fix, but so far the
>> output looks OK to me.
>>     
>
> Thanks for this.  I think the patch is safe (I'm testing it for two or
> three days now) but I cannot predict it will be in any cases.  I guess
> Carsten will have a better call on this.
>
> (BTW, the issue your raising here concerns the way the HTML code *looks*
> and IMO they are less important than issues regarding the correctness of
> the HTML code... Just a thought.)
>
>   

Thanks for testing. Surely the No.1 priority is to have correct HTML 
syntax. But I think how the page looks comes very close as a second 
priority. After all, we use HTML because we want certain look (and 
better navigation).

Wanrong