to understant, perahsp try to look at the op and remove the line that says *hi*?
On 2/16/21, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi tim, > > tanks for your replies. > > 1. the same problem occurs without any * in the buffer. > > 2. the emphasis regexps are supposed to be limited to a few lines. > > 3. they are also supposed to not try to match dissimilar delimiiters. > > the problem is that > > hi =something > > stops all emphasis of all types in the entire rest of hte bguffer even > if the buyffer contains many lines. this sems unusual to me. > > it does not break anything befofre it. > > so i think your hypothesis of what i am talking about might possibly > not match what i am talking about at all. > > i am limited in coputer ue and will have to stop. > > tahnks for your replies. > > > On 2/16/21, Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> to answer your question: i expected it to just skip the non-emphasis. >>> not emphasizing the rest of the buffer seemed quite unusual. >>> >> >> I guess the problem is the same - how does org know when it is just a * >> and when it is the beginning of some emphasis text? We could make it >> that such markup only works on words, allowing the code to only consider >> two * as emphasis if there are no spaces, otherwise treat as just a *, >> but that would be inconvenient when you want to emphasis a phrase or a >> couple of words. We could change the regexp to only consider it an >> emphasis block if both markers are on the same line, but again, >> potentially inconvenient and it would fail for those who use visual-line >> mode where there paragraphs are just 1 long line. >> >> In short, can understand what your saying, but not sure there is a >> viable fix which doesn't have a heap of other consequences. Basically, >> if you want to use the 'markup' characters as normal characters, you >> need to either escape them or put them inside a verbatim directive. >> >> -- >> Tim Cross >> > > > -- > The Kafka Pandemic > > Please learn what misopathy is. > https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
