Eric Gorelik <[email protected]> writes: > Thanks for explaining the situation! I had at first wondered if it was regexp > related, but I only thought to check org-emphasis-regexp-components and > couldn't make heads or tails of a connection. > It sounds like these fontification questions have been going on for a > few years now; I am curious if there has been any work in this direction > since then - even if it were just something experimental that could be > opted into.
I implemented it on a branch and soon realized that the performance degradation is not acceptable. After that, I spent years improving Org parser performance. Not yet sufficient, as the parser is still not able to cache with fine granularity (inside paragraphs). > Would it make sense to explicitly warn of this invisibility case > of org-hide-emphasis-markers in its section of the manual? While the > manual does warn of potential emphasis formatting issues, I don't know > if the connection of formatting to invisibility is obvious to most users > - as far as reading notes is concerned, it changes a stylistic issue > into one of changed meaning of the document. I myself did not realize > for the longest time that the characters were only hidden and still > present and significant, not until I checked the export and found double > tilde everywhere. There are simply too many issues. Not just with invisibility. Documenting every single one in the manual does not make much sense. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
