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From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should comments break paragraphs?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:09:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wqorj80p.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ip0byoqg.fsf@gmail.com

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Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hmm.  In my book, the concept of comments implies that they should be
>> able to appear on any line in the text, without altering the meaning
>> of the context it appears in.  So to me, it would seem necessary to
>> treat comments as special, different from other elements.
>
> I don't think comments make much sense anywhere in Org (e.g., in an
> example block or in a source block). Also Org has no inline comment
> syntax (and I don't think it needs one: it is no programming language).
> So comments do not really fit in paragraphs.

I see comments as "entities which do not have any impact on the final
product". 

If you regard the org file as the final product, then I
completely agree (I use org mainly for literate programming, and I don't
use any comments unless in linger code blocks, but that is not in
org). But if I use org for writing e.g. presentations in beamer, I might want
to add comments which should not be on the product (slides, article,
handout, ...) but which contain info in the org file.

So we are talking different levels here.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Last, but not least, it is also easier to parse it that way.
>
> Now, if you want to improve comments anyway, you can always provide
> patches. There's some non-trivial work involved, though.
>
>
> Regards,


-- 
Rainer M. Krug

email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-16  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-15 18:48 Should comments break paragraphs? Kodi Arfer
2013-07-15 18:54 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-15 22:46   ` Christian Wittern
2013-07-16  6:53     ` Rainer M Krug
2013-07-16  6:59     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16  7:09       ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2013-07-16  7:40         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16  8:09           ` Rainer M Krug
2013-07-16  8:19             ` Andreas Leha
2013-07-16  8:44               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16  8:55                 ` Andreas Leha
2013-07-16 17:08                 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-07-16  8:26             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16  8:21           ` Fabrice Popineau
2013-07-16  8:27             ` Fabrice Popineau
2013-07-16 15:46       ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-16 16:01         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16 16:59           ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-16 17:51             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17  5:28               ` Bastien
2013-07-17  7:17                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17  8:15                   ` Bastien
2013-07-17  9:00                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17 12:57                       ` Bastien
2013-07-17 13:21                         ` Rainer M Krug
2013-07-17 13:52                           ` Rasmus
2013-07-17 16:10                             ` Eric S Fraga
2013-07-18  7:02                               ` Christian Moe
2013-07-18  8:31                                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-07-18  8:50                                   ` Rasmus
2013-07-18  9:50                                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-07-18  8:47                                 ` Rasmus
2013-07-17 13:28                         ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-17 14:30                           ` Bastien
2013-07-17 13:47                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17 18:48                           ` Eric S Fraga
2013-07-17 19:04                             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17 20:18                               ` Eric S Fraga
2013-07-17  7:11               ` Suvayu Ali
2013-07-17 12:54               ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-17 13:52                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17 22:05                 ` Andreas Leha
2013-07-17 22:11                   ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-17 22:34                     ` Andreas Leha
2013-07-18 11:23                     ` Nicolas Goaziou

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