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Re: Comment conventions, adding an explicit Header.
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Comment conventions, adding an explicit Header. |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:00:36 +0900 |
Phillip Lord writes:
> Well, I agree, it's not a particular disaster, and it is certainly one
> option that I considered. However, the problem remains that org-mode
> uses the lines before the first header to specify a set of variables,
> which is something that I cannot do if the first line is a header.
That's a design bug in org-mode, then. The obvious place to put those
variables is in a variables block in the *last* page, as Emacs has
been doing since before card-punched programs disappeared.
> > Ugh.
>
> It's less ugly in the org-mode view of a file, where it just looks like
> a normal org-mode header.
I guess I'm just spoiled by ReST, where in many use cases viewing the
file as plain text is close to optimal (the main thing I'd change is
that I'd use // to delimit italics and ** for bold).