Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > David Masterson <dsmaster...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hmm. glancing through the manual, there is a bit of assumption implicit >> about the use of '\\'. We had the problem with Unix Shell scripts that >> we would need a backslash at the end of a line to prevent the EOL as >> being interpreted as end-of-input. Depending on the layers of scripting >> we were using, we added backslashes after the backslash because each >> layer would peel off a backslash. This is what I first thought of in >> reading the manual. > > We do document the line breaks in > https://orgmode.org/manual/Paragraphs.html
The only thing I see with respect to '\\' is: Paragraphs are separated by at least one empty line. If you need to enforce a line break within a paragraph, use ‘\\’ at the end of a line. Which doesn't answer the question of why org-add-note (etc) added it the end of the first line of a Note which lead to my confusion. It's easy to assume, if Org is adding '\\' to the first line of the Note and the Note is a unit, then this is there to prevent folding/wrapping in the Note when Org does "something" (but what?). -- David Masterson
