Re: oeg-add-note and double backslash ?

[Ihor Radchenko]

David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:

> org-add-note puts a '\\' at the end of the first line.  Is it expected
> the user will put '\\' at the end of each line of a multiline note
> (except the last line)?

No.

> .. Why is this done?

To prevent fill-region from concatenating the auto-generated text in the
first line and the user input in the following lines.

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