Re: [bug] org-do-emphasis-faces breaks with incomplete emphasis

[Samuel Wales]

to understant, perahsp try to look at the op and remove the line that says *hi*?


On 2/16/21, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi tim,
>
> tanks for your replies.
>
> 1.  the same problem occurs without any * in the buffer.
>
> 2.  the emphasis regexps are supposed to be limited to a few lines.
>
> 3.  they are also supposed to not try to match dissimilar delimiiters.
>
> the problem is that
>
> hi =something
>
> stops all emphasis of all types in the entire rest of hte bguffer even
> if the buyffer contains many lines.  this sems unusual to me.
>
> it does not break anything befofre it.
>
> so i think your hypothesis of what i am talking about might possibly
> not match what i am talking about at all.
>
> i am limited in coputer ue and will have to stop.
>
> tahnks for your replies.
>
>
> On 2/16/21, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> to answer your question: i expected it to just skip the non-emphasis.
>>> not emphasizing the rest of the buffer seemed quite unusual.
>>>
>>
>> I guess the problem is the same - how does org know when it is just a *
>> and when it is the beginning of some emphasis text? We could make it
>> that such markup only works on words, allowing the code to only consider
>> two * as emphasis if there are no spaces, otherwise treat as just a *,
>> but that would be inconvenient when you want to emphasis a phrase or a
>> couple of words. We could change the regexp to only consider it an
>> emphasis block if both markers are on the same line, but again,
>> potentially inconvenient and it would fail for those who use visual-line
>> mode where there paragraphs are just 1 long line.
>>
>> In short, can understand what your saying, but not sure there is a
>> viable fix which doesn't have a heap of other consequences. Basically,
>> if you want to use the 'markup' characters as normal characters, you
>> need to either escape them or put them inside a verbatim directive.
>>
>> --
>> Tim Cross
>>
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