Re: [O] The + character creating strike-through markup within in-line literal / code blocks

[Nick Dokos]

John Magolske <address@hidden> writes:

>> It happens because syntax coloring is a bit dumb. It uses regexps but
>> not the parser. However, if you try, e.g., to export the document, the
>> plus signs will not be treated as markers.
>
> Ok, just tried org-html-export-as-html and see it renders properly
> in html:
>
>     ... expression <code>(x +. y)</code> the <code>+.</code> is ...
>
> but I feel like there's a bug in the regex, that the =code= and
> ~verbatim~ marker characters should be able to prevent any other
> marker characters bracketed by them from causing highlighting.

Regexes recognize what is called a "regular" language which obeys a
context-free grammar. Although modern regexes are a bit more powerful,
it is still difficult (and computationally expensive) to have them
recognize context (e.g. figure out that we are now inside a verbatim
environment and so we need to do things differently).  That's why
context-sensitive grammars require parsers.

-- 
Nick

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