Not Working With Non-default `org-emphasis-regexp-components`

[athendwyl]

I'm using org-mode for creative writing, and in it I have it set up to use smart typography with “” and ‘’ instead of just " and '. I had to update org-emphasis-regexp-components to add these characters to it. However, while they do render properly, org-appear does not appropriately show and hide the emphasis markers for if one of these non-standard characters are at the start or end of the section.

For example, if I write "/Welcome/", org-appear will dynamically show and hide the emphasis markers as it should. However, if I write “/Welcome/”, it just adheres to org-hide-emphasis-markers. This happens with other non-default pre and post characters, which are entries 0 and 1 of org-emphasis-regexp-components. I have tried it with ¿ and ¡ as well, and the problem persists.

[awth13]

Hi, @athendwyl!

As the docstring for org-emphasis-regexp-components says, this variable only affects fontification and does not change anything else about the way Org works, including Org element tree parsing that org-appear relies on to detect elements under cursor. It appears that Org maintainers previously considered obsoleting this variable altogether.

Of course, this does not work for your use case or, indeed, when writing in languages other than English, as exemplified in this thread talking about CJK texts. Perhaps you could post on the mailing list describing your use case?