still not what i am saying. nefver mind. thanks. On 2/16/21, Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes: > >> hi tim, >> >> tanks for your replies. >> >> 1. the same problem occurs without any * in the buffer. > > It will occur with any of the markup special characters e.g. *, =, _, +, / > >> >> 2. the emphasis regexps are supposed to be limited to a few lines. > > Are they? What is 'a few'? This also won't work if you use > visual-line-mode and don't use auto-fill (as your paragraphs are then > just one long line). > >> >> 3. they are also supposed to not try to match dissimilar delimiiters. >> > > Not quite sure what you mean here. > >> 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'm not disagreeing with what your saying. I think the reason the rest > of the file doesn't get parsed correctly is because the single markup > character has made the syntax inconsistent and broken. > > The problem is I don't think there is a good fix for this which doesn't > introduce other problems. If the regexp which does the matching is > supposed to limit its search to just a specific number of lines, then > perhaps it is broken. However, I'm not sure what 'a few lines' really > means (2?, 5?, 10?). I also know from past experience that trying to > define font-lock matches which work in such a way is complex, error > prone and often results in a considerable performance hit. > > Bottom line, if you want to use the characters reserved for markup > purposes as just plain characters, you have to somehow quote them or > mark them as being 'verbatim' characters. I do think it would be useful > to have something in the manual on this under the markup section. > > -- > Tim Cross >
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