Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > David Masterson <dsmaster...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> To prevent fill-region from concatenating the auto-generated text in the >>> first line and the user input in the following lines. >> >> Ah. Is that mentioned somewhere in the Org manual? I don't mean the >> details of fill-region, but a little something to answer "why is that >> there?" by new users. > > No, AFAIK, the exact format of notes is not described in the manual. > We do not describe every single detail in the manual. > I believe that the exact wording of the notes is not something we have > to describe.
Hmm. glancing through the manual, there is a bit of assumption implicit about the use of '\\'. We had the problem with Unix Shell scripts that we would need a backslash at the end of a line to prevent the EOL as being interpreted as end-of-input. Depending on the layers of scripting we were using, we added backslashes after the backslash because each layer would peel off a backslash. This is what I first thought of in reading the manual. Seeing '\\' at the end of the note line, I thought something would get messed up if the EOLs (except last) in the Note were treated as end-of-input, so I added them to all but the last line. This is what I think needs clarification. -- David Masterson
