>> May I suggest to replace ' with (quote ) in the manual? This error was >> tricky to track, as these quotes look very similar within emacs (I am >> using emacs23) >>
Hi Nick, Nick> Unfortunately, this is no help at all to you and will be little Nick> consolation, but there *is* a note in the Org manual (section 1.3, Nick> "Activation") that explicitly warns about this, although I don't know Nick> when it went in: Nick> <quote> Nick> Important: If you use copy-and-paste to copy lisp code from the PDF Nick> documentation as viewed by Acrobat reader to your .emacs file, the Nick> single quote character comes out incorrectly and the code will not Nick> work. You need to fix the single quotes by hand, or copy from Info Nick> documentation. Nick> </quote> I read this once sometime ago. And I forgot about it (today I was trying to update to the latest version of org). Nick> Also, I tried xpdf and (modulo selecting *all* of the text to be pasted Nick> which is somewhat problematic, at least in my version of xpdf), I was Nick> able to paste and save with the quotes intact. So (from my naive point Nick> of view) it seems that Acroread does indeed mangle things. I used evince (under ubuntu), so it is not only acroread. -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
