Re: [O] Bug: org-mode interprets * as a headline in text between #+BEGIN_.. and #+END_...

[Nick Dokos]

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Is the "* on column 0 is a headline" convention a consequence of the
>> dependence on outline.el? Or is it just historical baggage? I cannot
>> remember the grammar rules, but I'm wondering if the parser could be
>> made to say "not a headline" in this situation, and if so, what the
>> consequences might be (particularly, the bad consequences).
>>
>> I'm not sure whether Nicolas has actually explained this situation in
>> the past, but, with gmane non compos mentis, I did not attempt to find
>> an earlier discussion.
>
> This is inherent on how the syntax is defined, and how the parser is
> implemented. As an outliner, the main syntactic element in an Org
> document is the headline. Everything else has a lower priority.
> Therefore, a block will not be parsed before a headline.
>
> The good side of headlines being top level elements is that parsing
> (without cache) only needs to start from the closest headline above. If
> blocks could be parsed before headlines, parsing should start from the
> beginning of the document every time.
>

Thank you. I appreciate both your patience and your explanations.

-- 
Nick