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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: public-emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@plane.gmane.org,
	Sebastien Vauban
	<public-wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@plane.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [feature] Macros can't contain accents
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:56:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE6C846.80308@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bokao14m.fsf@gmail.com>



On 6/23/12 10:58 AM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

>> Accented and a variety of other non-ascii characters do work in
>> targets, IDs and CUSTOM_IDs, in my experience.
>
> Right.
>
>> Org-target-regexp is simply "<<\\([^<>]+\\)>>", so it's not
>> picky. Perhaps the same could be done for macros (replacing angle
>> brackets with curly braces), without screwing anything up...?
>
> I'd rather do the opposite and restrict them all: this kind of regexp is
> slow to parse and there is little gain to allow any character in targets
> since they are all invisible now.

My user perspective differs: I'm happy to be able to use my 
language(s) freely in Org, even in the invisible bits, and would not 
trade it in for a speedup.

That said, I don't particularly mind the status quo on macros. They're 
code-like, and we're used to ascii restrictions on computer code.

Yours,
Christian

      reply	other threads:[~2012-06-24  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-22 19:51 [feature] Macros can't contain accents Sebastien Vauban
2012-06-22 19:57 ` Nicolas Goaziou
     [not found]   ` <4FE55CCB.2000102@christianmoe.com>
2012-06-23  8:58     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-06-24  7:56       ` Christian Moe [this message]

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