Re: Discrepancy between documentation and implementation regarding comments

[Samuel Wales]

beware # at eob with no newline.

On 10/27/19, Adam Porter <address@hidden> wrote:
> I agree with Robert that "whitespace" includes newlines in "Emacsland."
> For example, with this document (the second "#" has a newline
> immediately after, no spaces or tabs):
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC org
> foo
>
> # comment
>
> bar
>
> #
>
> buzz
> #+END_SRC
>
> This code matches both lines that begin with "#":
>
>   (re-search-forward (rx bol "#" (1+ space)))
>
> But this code only matches the first one, because "blank" only matches
> "horizontal whitespace":
>
>   (re-search-forward (rx bol "#" (1+ blank)))
>
> So I think Pandoc is technically at fault here.  However, outside of
> Emacs's own context, I can see how the the documentation could be
> misinterpreted in this case, so it's hard to fault them too much.  :)
>
>
>


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