From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Discrepancy between documentation and implementation regarding comments
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:16:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv7s3kw8.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blu1xfjb.fsf@thb.lt> (Thibault Polge's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:42:16 +0100")
Hello,
Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt> writes:
> Thanks Nicolas, just a small detail though: unless this is a planned
> (breaking) change, I believe the description you linked should read:
>
> A “comment line” starts with *zero or more whitespace characters,
> followed by* a hash sign, followed by a whitespace character or an end
> of line.
True. I fixed that.
> Another detail: it could be nice to have a small appendix somewhere
> mapping character names to codepoints, since Unicode has no less than
> three “number signs” (from Wikipedia):
>
> - U+0023 # NUMBER SIGN (HTML #). Other attested names in Unicode are: pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe.
> - U+FF03 ＃ FULLWIDTH NUMBER SIGN (HTML ＃)
> - U+FE5F ﹟ SMALL NUMBER SIGN (HTML ﹟)
This is left as an exercise to the reader. ;)
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-28 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-27 10:07 Discrepancy between documentation and implementation regarding comments Thibault Polge
2019-10-27 16:13 ` Robert Pluim
2019-10-27 20:09 ` Adam Porter
2019-10-27 21:02 ` Samuel Wales
2019-10-28 11:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-10-28 11:42 ` Thibault Polge
2019-10-28 16:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2019-10-29 13:52 ` Robert Pluim
2019-10-29 14:14 ` Thibault Polge
2019-10-29 14:34 ` Robert Pluim
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