Re: [O] Should comments break paragraphs?

[Eric Schulte]

>
> This is a general pre-export issue, it does not depend on the
> exporters themselves.
>
> So again, what prevents us to make it easy for users to treat comments
> as no-line before parsing and exporting?

Unless I'm mistaken, I think this is exactly what my previous patch does
(reproduced here for ease of reference).

>From ce4c30ebe56d4cd66810bca48824d8841e7b130d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Schulte <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:44:59 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] support inline comments w/o breaking paragraphs

* lisp/org-element.el (org-element-parse-buffer): Strip inline comments
  as a pre-processing step before exporting.
---
 lisp/org-element.el | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/org-element.el b/lisp/org-element.el
index 8d64657..d69d9ba 100644
--- a/lisp/org-element.el
+++ b/lisp/org-element.el
@@ -4092,13 +4092,19 @@ or objects within the parse tree.
 
 This function assumes that current major mode is `org-mode'."
   (save-excursion
-    (goto-char (point-min))
-    (org-skip-whitespace)
-    (org-element--parse-elements
-     (point-at-bol) (point-max)
-     ;; Start in `first-section' mode so text before the first
-     ;; headline belongs to a section.
-     'first-section nil granularity visible-only (list 'org-data nil))))
+    (let ((save (buffer-string)))
+      (unwind-protect
+         (progn
+           (goto-char (point-min))
+           (delete-matching-lines "^ *# .[^\n]*\n")
+           (org-skip-whitespace)
+           (org-element--parse-elements
+            (point-at-bol) (point-max)
+            ;; Start in `first-section' mode so text before the first
+            ;; headline belongs to a section.
+            'first-section nil granularity visible-only (list 'org-data nil)))
+       (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
+       (insert save)))))
 
 (defun org-element-parse-secondary-string (string restriction &optional parent)
   "Recursively parse objects in STRING and return structure.
-- 
1.8.3.2

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte