From: stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fixing link encoding once and for all
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 14:58:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l8kh2as.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lg1znh9t.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Do you mean Windows file names in existing Org files? I.e. the
>> back-compatibility concern?
>>
>> If so, yes, I confess I didn't think at all about back-compatibility,
>> with my suggestion above. So perhaps that rules my idea out.
>>
>> If we were starting from scratch, however,
>> - I believe it would technically be fine; i.e. it's a complete and
>> unambiguous encoding
>> - it might be considered awkward for Windows users to have to write
>> c:\\system32\\mydoc.txt instead of c:\system32\mydoc.txt, but I don't
>> know how big a concern that would be.
>
> Thinking a bit more about it, we don't need to escape /all/ square
> brackets, only "]]" and "][" constructs. Therefore, we don't need to
> escape every backslash either.
>
> The regexp for bracket links could be, in its simple (!) form:
>
> \[\[\(.*?[^\\]\(?:\\\)*\)\]\(?:\[\([^\000]+?\)\]\)?\]
>
> Most links would need no change. I see one notable exception:
> directories in Windows:
>
> [[c:\system32\\]] for "c:\system32\"
>
> Some further notes:
>
> 1. Macros already use backslashes to escape commas in arguments, so it
> is at least consistent with this part of Org.
>
> 2. The description part of the link, like most parts of Org, does not
> use backslash escaping. If needed, we can implement an entity for
> a square bracket.
>
> 3. There will be some backward compatibility issues. We can add
> a checker in Org Lint to catch most of those. For example, we could
> look at URI where every percent is followed only by 25, 5B, and 5D.
>
About this, I'm curious, is it possible let this checker search and interactive
query replace with running recursively in a directory for all Org files. If Org
updated, I hope my Org documents are update too.
> WDYT?
>
> Regards,
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-03 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-24 1:16 [RFC] Fixing link encoding once and for all Nicolas Goaziou
2019-02-24 23:04 ` Neil Jerram
2019-02-27 10:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-02-28 10:24 ` Neil Jerram
2019-03-01 8:14 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-01 8:30 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-01 8:40 ` Michael Brand
2019-03-01 8:41 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-03-01 8:56 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-01 9:40 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-03-03 6:58 ` stardiviner [this message]
2019-03-03 8:08 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-04 23:16 ` Neil Jerram
2019-03-05 0:23 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-05 16:27 ` Neil Jerram
2019-03-05 16:36 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-25 8:54 ` stardiviner
2019-02-27 8:07 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-02-27 11:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-02-27 12:57 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-02-28 10:51 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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