Re: Long lines prevent Org mode!

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> you can leave org out of the picture altogether: create an empty
> buffer, insert 33333 x's by hand, go to the beginning and evaluate

>    (looking-at ".*foo")

> As Stefan says in the thread you pointed out, it's a limitation of the
> emacs regexp engine.

Yes, I got this from his article.  However, it seems that "[^\nf]*foo"
would succeed, avoiding the stack explosion.  So, it is possible to
rework the regexpes around the limitation.

Surely not a fun job to do for Org regexpes, I know.  Maybe not worth
doing as very long lines are unusual, yet maybe worth doing nevertheless
for Org files because long lines are still possible.  The fact is that I
was hit by this problem in the Org buffers generated by org-grep.

However, as I am tempted to think that the problem is unlikely to be
solved soon, I tried to alleviate it.  org-grep now shortens the lines
by removing, within each line, a good part of the context between hits.
This does not guarantee that the above problem will never occur, but it
considerably decreases the chance that it occurs.

> I cut and paste and then use either C-c m (bound to
> message-mark-inserted-region) or C-c q (bound to boxquote-region)

Thanks for these hints, which I saved on keys here! :-)

> Of course, if your problem is that your mailer (or some mailer along
> the way) mangles the content, then the safest thing to do is to put it
> in an attachment or post it on some pastebin and send a link.

Sure.

My little problem was different.  If I use Org in-line markup, like
bold, italics, or links to Web sites, or even block markup like
fragments between #+BEGIN_SRC and #+END_SRC, say, I was wondering how
this is best transmitted within a message, in the text, without
resorting to an attachment.  Gnus as a reader surely has some capability
somewhere, as I think I saw messages displaying Org code nicely; I just
do not remember how it was done.  Outside Gnus, it might be more
problematic to find a useful way to have Org included.  Sending Org all
raw is sometimes a bit noisy, especially for links.

Someone recently mentioned org-mime.el, new to me, maybe this is the
proper avenue?  I should at least play and experiment with it! :-).

François