[O] [parser] subscripts and underlines interacting badly

[Aaron Ecay]

Hello,

I have encountered two related misbehaviors in the parser/exporter.

The first manifests if you type the following line into an org-mode
buffer and execute M-: (org-element-context) with point on the ‘f’; the
result is a subscript object, whereas I would have expected an
underline:

'_foo_

I think both possibilities are returned by
org-element--get-next-object-candidates, and subscript “wins” because it
precedes the other in the list.  I’m not sure how this should be
addressed, but maybe Nicolas knows.

I encountered the second issue when trying to hack around the first by
setting org-use-sub-superscripts to '{}.  It seems this variable is not
considered by the parser.  I think the attached patch fixes this issue.

Thanks,

>From f5f6d10e5d55f68d57abd2f7a947f72cb90081d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Ecay <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:19:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] org-element: respect the `org-use-sub-superscripts' variable

* lisp/org-element.el (org-element-sub/superscript-successor): respect
the `org-use-sub-superscripts' variable
---
 lisp/org-element.el | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/org-element.el b/lisp/org-element.el
index 9183a67..d0e6bf9 100644
--- a/lisp/org-element.el
+++ b/lisp/org-element.el
@@ -3394,11 +3394,15 @@ CONTENTS is the contents of the object."
 
 Return value is a cons cell whose CAR is either `subscript' or
 `superscript' and CDR is beginning position."
-  (save-excursion
-    (unless (bolp) (backward-char))
-    (when (re-search-forward org-match-substring-regexp nil t)
-      (cons (if (string= (match-string 2) "_") 'subscript 'superscript)
-           (match-beginning 2)))))
+  (when org-use-sub-superscripts
+    (save-excursion
+      (unless (bolp) (backward-char))
+      (when (re-search-forward (if (eq org-use-sub-superscripts '{})
+                                  org-match-substring-with-braces-regexp
+                                org-match-substring-regexp)
+                              nil t)
+       (cons (if (string= (match-string 2) "_") 'subscript 'superscript)
+             (match-beginning 2))))))
 
 
 ;;;; Superscript
-- 
1.8.5.1

-- 
Aaron Ecay