Re: [O] footnote fontify causing massive slowdown

[Thomas S . Dye]

William Denton <address@hidden> writes:

> On 5 December 2015, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>
>> However, this report raises an interesting question about footnotes:
>> should we still support plain (e.g., "[1]") footnotes in Org documents?
>>
>> The pattern is very common an regularly introduces false positives.
>> Also, IIRC, it was introduced for non-Org buffers (e.g., in Message mode
>> buffers), to provide some common features with "footnote.el" library.
>>
>> I think we could remove this kind of footnotes, and yet preserve
>> `org-footnote-normalize' to change Org footnotes into these ones, for
>> foreign documents.
>
> +1.  The false positives are a common problem for me, and [fn:1] works 
> cleanly 
> and clearly.

Same here. +1.

All the best,
Tom

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