Nicolas Goaziou writes on Fri 29 Jun 2018 15:39: > > The manual says: > > > > If you place the cursor at the beginning or just behind the end > > of the displayed text and press <BACKSPACE>, you will remove the > > (invisible) bracket at that location. > > > > The problem for me it that it depends on the way I arrive at those > > locations. For example, for '[[xx]]', seen as 'xx' underlined, if I > > have the cursor on the right of it and have it go towards the left > > just after the second 'x' and press <BACKSPACE>, then the behavior is > > as I expect (I see '[[xx]'), but, if I have the cursor on the left and > > have it go to towards the right just after the second 'x' and press > > <BACKSPACE>, then I see a single underlined 'x' (after a second > > <BACKSPACE> I see '[[]]'). > > > > Is this normal? [...]
> Yes, it is normal Emacs behaviour. See (info "(elisp) Invisible > Text"). OK, thanks a lot. > I guess we could clarify the manual. Suggestions welcome. I guess you could simply add a footnote after "location." in the excerpt above. - Minimalist: See (info "(elisp) Invisible Text"). - Hardly more: For more details, see (info "(elisp) Invisible Text"). - Facetious: If unexpected behavior occurs, check (info "(elisp) Invisible Text"). - Too kind: Beware, the precise behavior depends on how the cursor has been placed there -- see (info "(elisp) Invisible Text"). > > Incidentally, is there a way to have things like [[xx]] behave as > > plain text? > Yes, there is. Insert a zero width space after the opening > brackets. Thanks again. I would also advocate some mention of this in the manual (if not already there somewhere, which I did not find). I was thinking about an extra sentence at the end of "4.1 Link format"; something like: To have ‘[[text]]’ constructs behave as plain text and not as links, insert a zero-width space (C-x 8 <RET> ZERO WIDTH SPACE <RET>) between the opening (or the closing) brackets. However, I still don't see how this can be something convenient for massive and frequent use. In my case, I often yank and work on code fragments written in the Mathematica language, for which the [[]] syntax is used for list indexing. Well, I guess I'll have to learn to live with that... > > (I am not talking about literal links which are still > > understood as links.) I have tried 'quote', 'verse', 'verbatim', > > 'comment', 'example', and org code block: none work. > =[[xx]]= and ~[[xx]]= are not links; try to export them. Indeed. Thanks once more. Regards -- EOST (École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) IPG (Institut de Physique du Globe) | alain.coch...@unistra.fr 5 rue René Descartes [bureau 106] | Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 50 44 F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France | Fax: +33 (0)3 68 85 01 25
