Re: On zero width spaces and Org syntax

["Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>]

Tom Gillespie writes:

> I don't mean to be dismissive of the suggestion, but a lot of
> time is spent on this list walking back ideas that have not
> had sufficient time put into understanding what the
> unintended consequences would be, so I wouldn't say
> that it is irresponsible, I would say instead that it lacks
> sufficient rigor and depth to be seriously considered. If you
> can add those to this proposal (e.g. in the form of a patch)
> then I suspect it would get a much warmer reception.

I am afraid that I am explaining myself wrong, and it is not my
intention that this matter becomes entangled to infinity.

I have no intention of proposing any patch on this. I'm not strongly
requesting this feature be included, and I am not interested in starting
a crusade to defend this (and as for lack of rigor and depth, well, it's your
subjective opinion). But it's more simple. Since a thread on these
questions came up recently, it occurred to me to suggest this idea as a
*possibility*, in case anyone could find it interesting and would like
to explore it. Nothing more. In fact, I don't think I was going to use
this probable feature much, if it was implemented, because for these
scenarios I prefer to use Org macros or other resources that I have
implemented for my workflow. But maybe users would prefer this to insert
a zero-whith space character (which is a tricky and quite ugly
workaround and should not be recommended). Or maybe not. I really don't
know. I don't know all Org users in the world, do you know them?

Anyway, I want to point out one thing, again. The scenarios and contexts
that are being described here are far from "very narrow use case". And I
don't think it's very appropriate to hide the lack of something with the
excuse that no one is going to need it. Intra-word emphasis is used (for
example) a lot in linguistics books and texts, grammars, etc. That you
*ignore* this fact does not mean that does not exist.

regards,

jm