Re: [PATCH] org.el: make org-paragraph-fill ignore \[...\] regions starting and ending a line

[Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>]

>> without having to introduce the undesired Cons. The behavior is a
>> follows:
>> - if \[...\] is inline, behave as before.
>> - if \[ is the first non space character of a line and the closing \]
>> is the last non space character of a line (possibly spanning several
>> lines), then do not fill this region of the paragraph.
>
> But then, you introduce a discrepancy between M-q results and Org
> syntax. This is not optimal either.

Would you mind elaborating on the discrepancy. I do not quite
understand what do you mean. Doesn't the Org syntax "just" defines the
result of parsing a buffer (like in most programming languages where
indentation and line breaks are just to help people reading code)?

>
> Also, this will not be consistent anyway with \begin{...} ... \end{...}
> markup, which is handled differently, unlike to LaTeX.

Yes, I agree. But, given that we do not want to make \[...\] an
`org-mode' environment for backward compatibility reasons, this
appears to be the only alternative. Note that (as noted earlier)
`latex-mode' behaves similarly: it does not fill parts of a paragraph
where a line begins with \[ and ends with \]. The reason and goal is
to achieve that a carefully typed long equation does not get scrambled
by M-q because if it does it becomes difficult to read for humans.

>
>> Attached you find a patch with the proposed modification. I would
>> greatly appreciate if you could consider it for inclusion in org-mode
>> and provide feedback.
>
> Note that you should use master to provide patches. `org-fill-paragraph'
> was modified recently.

OK, will pull again.

Regards,
Federico