Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> writes:
> Alan Schmitt <alan.schm...@polytechnique.org> writes:
>
>> Hello Samuel,
>>
>> Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> org-emphasis-regexp-components
>>
>> Thank you for the suggestion. I'm trying to make sense of it:
>>
>> org-emphasis-regexp-components is a variable defined in `org.el'.
>> Its value is (" ('\"{" "- .,:!?;'\")}\\" "
>> ,\"'" "." 1)
>>
>> Documentation:
>> Components used to build the regular expression for emphasis.
>> This is a list with five entries. Terminology: In an emphasis string
>> like " *strong word* ", we call the initial space PREMATCH, the final
>> space POSTMATCH, the stars MARKERS, "s" and "d" are BORDER characters
>> and "trong wor" is the body. The different components in this variable
>> specify what is allowed/forbidden in each part:
>>
>> pre Chars allowed as prematch. Beginning of line will be allowed
>> too.
>> post Chars allowed as postmatch. End of line will be allowed too.
>> border The chars *forbidden* as border characters.
>> body-regexp A regexp like "." to match a body character. Don't use
>> non-shy groups here, and don't allow newline here.
>> newline The maximum number of newlines allowed in an emphasis exp.
>>
>> You need to reload Org or to restart Emacs after customizing this.
>>
>> I see that "body-regexp" is "." so the problem is not from there. I also
>> see that "'" is forbidden as a border character, which should be fine in
>> my case as I'm using "~". So is the problem that "'" is both in prematch
>> and postmatch? But in my case I use it as a body character.
>>
>> So I'm afraid I don't understand why the "'" in ~'a ref~ is not accepted
>> as a body character, and what I should do to make sure it is.
>>
>
> See if
>
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/73036/match=org+emphasis+regexp+components
>
> can help make some sense out of the line noise (although it was
> triggered by a different question). I believe the problem here is
> the BORDER regexp (the one that goes
>
> "
> ,\"'"
>
> above), not the BODY one: it forbids newlines, commas, double
> and single quotes. Try deleting the single quote from it.
Sorry - I need coffee. I read what you wrote and promptly forgot
all of it. So ignore most of what I wrote.
However, the part about the BORDER regexp is correct I believe: in ~'a ref~,
the ~ are the MARKERS; ' and f are the BORDER and "a re" is the BODY.
--
Nick
