> > I understand that the indentation is virtual; it is just that I would > > (ideally) expect for the quoted example to visually look the same as > > it does in an org buffer. > > That's not possible.
I understand that now. I'll stay disappointed about it :-) > > OK. I had missed this footnote. I will live with this, but am still > > surprised by this fact -- the SRC org block looks ugly to me. When we > > enter [[xx]] (say) the brackets become invisible, so I had assumed > > that a similar mechanism could exist here; I guess there are > > advantages to the present situation that I do not see... > > I am not sure about what situation you're talking about, fontification > or escaping mechanism. > > About the latter, the idea was to make it as little intrusive as > possible. In most languages, you never need to escape anything. Of > course, Org is an exception since many lines could conflict with > enclosing document. To the extent that I understand the terminology, I was talking about escaping mechanism: it would be nice if the escaping commas could be made invisible and not using any space. Thanks for the explanations. a.