* Escape mechanism in code and verbatim blocks
@ 2015-09-19 13:37 Kaushal Modi
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From: Kaushal Modi @ 2015-09-19 13:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-org list, Nicolas Goaziou
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@Nicolas
I am with you on not using non-ascii characters to escape stuff.
I like your proposal about escaping in code and verbatim blocks.
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Kaushal Modi
On Sep 19, 2015 7:35 AM, "Nicolas Goaziou" <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> 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,
>
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