From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Show presence of zero width spaces using overlay
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 13:37:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u82tzb9.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY231-ooVR4shT2Hb7pZKCZxiojPDCT_=ARZbHs=86FemQ@mail.gmail.com> (Kaushal Modi's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2015 22:39:32 +0000")
Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:
> My most common uses are escaping double quotes (") and equals (=) within
> org verbatim blocks (=VERBATIM=)
>
> Examples:
>
> 1. =var=[ZWS]val=
> 2. =[ZWS]"something"[ZWS]=
>
> Here [ZWS] is the 0x200b zero width space unicode char.
>
> I found [ZWS] useful as a generic escape char for org mode. There are few
> other cases where this has been useful, but I can't recall right now.
>
> In any case, what would be the recommended way to escape " and = in the
> above 2 examples?
As I said, entities can only escape most Org syntax. Verbatim and code
objects are an exception. Here I think we should introduce an escape
mechanism, much like the one used in macro arguments in order to escape
commas.
For example, in a verbatim object, one only needs to escape "=", using
common "\". Obviously, "\=" constructs can be escaped with "\\=" and so
on. Likewise, in code objects, only "~" needs to be escaped.
In any case, I don't think Org syntax should rely on non-ASCII
characters.
Regards,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-19 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-18 18:44 Show presence of zero width spaces using overlay Kaushal Modi
2015-09-18 21:11 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-09-18 22:39 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-19 1:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-09-19 4:07 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-19 4:11 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-19 6:15 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-19 7:22 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-09-19 13:46 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-19 11:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
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2015-09-22 15:13 timor
2015-09-27 9:41 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-04-19 9:23 ` timor
2016-04-19 10:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-04-19 11:38 timor
2016-04-19 19:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-04-19 23:20 ` timor
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