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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Discrepancy between documentation and implementation regarding comments
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:13:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lft6p3og.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeyyy013.fsf@thb.lt> (Thibault Polge's message of "Sun, 27 Oct 2019 11:07:20 +0100")

>>>>> On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 11:07:20 +0100, Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt> said:

    Thibault> Hello,
    Thibault> According to Org-Mode documentation[1],

    >> Lines starting with zero or more whitespace characters followed by one
    >> ‘#’ and a whitespace are treated as comments and, as such, are not
    >> exported.

'whitespace' in emacs normally covers newline as well. Of course org
might mean 'at least one space or tab', but as you say, thatʼs not
what the implementation does. eg in org 9.2.6, org-fill-element does

    (re-search-backward "^[ \t]*#[ \t]*$" begin t)

However org-at-comment-p does

    (looking-at "^[ \t]*# ")

so thereʼs some possible inconsistency there.

FWIW, Iʼd vote for expressing it as 'zero or more whitespace followed
by one # followed by zero or more whitespace'

Robert

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-27 16:13 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 [this message]
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
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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