Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> writes:
> To me comments are mainly things that don't get exported.
Comments are much more than that. They also deactivate the syntax (which
is what I call "dead" syntax).
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# SCHEDULED: <2015-02-24 Tue>
(org-entry-get nil "SCHEDULED") => nil
> Their utility and data density is reduced if they can't contain links
> (or I can't see that the link is there, which is sort-of the same
> thing).
>
> When writing a document it is useful to leave informal notes to myself
> that say "see X" where X is an external file, or a section (or some
> code) elsewhere in this document, etc.
They cannot contain link, nor anything else. However, the feature you
describe above was deemed useful enough that `org-open-at-point'
sloppily opens anything looking like a link (or a timestamp) within
a comment.
However, there is, per syntax, no link there, and I don't think it
should be fontified.
Regards,
