From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
Cc: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: verbatim and apostrophes
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:23:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvmewhy1.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2txbei5ne.fsf@polytechnique.org> (Alan Schmitt's message of "Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:07:17 +0100")
Hi Alan,
Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
> A suggestion could be to allow any text inside the markers, except for
> the marker itself which would need to be escaped. Escaping could take
> the form of doubling the marker:
>
> ~"foo bar"~ --> "foo bar"
> ~"foo ~~ bar"~ --> "foo ~ bar"
>
> As I've not thought this through, I'm pretty sure someone will find a
> huge flaw in this suggestion.
Well, the huge flaw will never be obvious with such solutions...
because the flaw is precisely this: it hides huge flaws.
(Do not bother parsing the above, I'm not sure myself.)
FWIW here is my gut reaction: I'm not a fan (euphemism) of escaping
here, I feel like it adds little value while bumping complexity too
much.
But exploring it might be worth it, if someone wants to try!
--
Bastien
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-19 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-12 13:24 verbatim and apostrophes Alan Schmitt
2014-02-12 21:11 ` Samuel Wales
2014-02-13 7:05 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-02-13 12:27 ` Nick Dokos
2014-02-13 12:40 ` Nick Dokos
2014-02-14 8:21 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-03-04 9:53 ` Bastien
2014-03-04 11:07 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-03-19 11:23 ` Bastien [this message]
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