Hello org-mode maintainers,
With org-hide-emphasis-markers enabled, I am running into a
number of situations where characters inside inline code and verbatim
strings are made invisible.
The one I am hitting constantly is when a code string contains "~"
before a letter or other significant character.
If you write the string
~(A & ~B)~
Emacs will display this as
(A & B)
I can add another "~" where the other one disappeared,
and that will remain visible.
~(A & ~~B)~
displays as
(A & ~B)
Only when exporting does it reveal the true content, the double "~".
`(A & ~~B)'
The same kind of behavior happens with verbatim strings. Writing
=(A =B)=
displays as
(A B)
I have also occasionally seen this happening to other characters inside
code/verbatim strings. In the example I was able to reproduce, I can
type
~A /-> B~ is /almost/
and Emacs displays
A -> B is almost
Emacs also italicizes "-> B is almost".
The behavior here is harder to reproduce; if I initially instead write
it as
~A /-> B~
is /almost/
it displays exactly as expected, but as soon as I then try to add a
second slash to make "//->", one slash disappears, and everything from
"/->" to the end is italicized.
A /-> B
is almost
If I write it initially with "//->", it initially displays
as expected, and the above effect does not happen until I try to
edit the code string - editing it makes characters start to disappear.
Exporting to text again reveals the true content with the missing
characters.
I was able to reproduce this kind of behavior in inline src_ blocks as
well; if I write
src_text{~~A~}
it displays as
src_text{~A}
I reproduced all of this with "emacs -Q" on org-mode 9.8.7,
but also on 9.8.9 (without "-Q").
What I would expect to happen is that the contents of any sort of
verbatim, code, src_, or similar string
should have no effect on formatting, or at the very least no characters
should ever disappear from inside them.
Finally, I am not sure whether or not this is related, as it happens
regardless of org-hide-emphasis-markers, but just in case it is,
the cluster "'~," when ending a code string, seems to mess up what
gets formatted as code. The general pattern is text, then some code
ending in apostrophe, then following the "~" with a comma,
and then a second code string on the same line. For example,
Then ~a'~, is ~b~
What happens is the whole segment "a', is b" gets formatted as code
(if org-hide-emphasis-markers is on, all "~" disappear). Deleting the
apostrophe
causes the line to be formatted as expected.
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