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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: footnote fontify causing massive slowdown
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2015 10:42:01 +0100
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To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
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Hello,

Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:

> William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> On 5 December 2015, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>>
>>> However, this report raises an interesting question about footnotes:
>>> should we still support plain (e.g., "[1]") footnotes in Org documents?
>>>
>>> The pattern is very common an regularly introduces false positives.
>>> Also, IIRC, it was introduced for non-Org buffers (e.g., in Message mode
>>> buffers), to provide some common features with "footnote.el" library.
>>>
>>> I think we could remove this kind of footnotes, and yet preserve
>>> `org-footnote-normalize' to change Org footnotes into these ones, for
>>> foreign documents.
>>
>> +1.  The false positives are a common problem for me, and [fn:1] works cleanly 
>> and clearly.
>
> Same here. +1.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll send a patch to the ML by the end of the
next week.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou