[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [O] How to elegantly and effectively quote org fragments?
From: |
Alain . Cochard |
Subject: |
Re: [O] How to elegantly and effectively quote org fragments? |
Date: |
Mon, 25 May 2015 10:33:20 +0200 |
> > I understand that the indentation is virtual; it is just that I would
> > (ideally) expect for the quoted example to visually look the same as
> > it does in an org buffer.
>
> That's not possible.
I understand that now. I'll stay disappointed about it :-)
> > OK. I had missed this footnote. I will live with this, but am still
> > surprised by this fact -- the SRC org block looks ugly to me. When we
> > enter [[xx]] (say) the brackets become invisible, so I had assumed
> > that a similar mechanism could exist here; I guess there are
> > advantages to the present situation that I do not see...
>
> I am not sure about what situation you're talking about, fontification
> or escaping mechanism.
>
> About the latter, the idea was to make it as little intrusive as
> possible. In most languages, you never need to escape anything. Of
> course, Org is an exception since many lines could conflict with
> enclosing document.
To the extent that I understand the terminology, I was talking about
escaping mechanism: it would be nice if the escaping commas could be
made invisible and not using any space.
Thanks for the explanations.
a.