From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>,
emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Show presence of zero width spaces using overlay
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 22:39:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY231-ooVR4shT2Hb7pZKCZxiojPDCT_=ARZbHs=86FemQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twqrtou5.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
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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?
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 5:09 PM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The suggestion to use zero width spaces to sort of "escape" stuff in org
> > mode has come up many times. I have started using it a lot and suggest
> that
> > to other people now.
> >
> > Here is one such recent QnA on emacs.SE:
> > http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/16702/115
> >
> > The OP of that question made a valid point that while using zero width
> > spaces is convenient, it is not apparent where it has been used in the
> > document.
> >
> > To resolve that, I am requesting a feature.
> >
> > Can the zero width spaces be optionally represented with something like a
> > single space overlay with a colored background (like purple)?
> >
> > Making this officially part of org-mode will probably make more people
> make
> > use of it.
> >
> > .. Or should people use zero width spaces?
>
> Entities can be used to escape most Org syntax, e.g.
>
> \ast{}shrug\ast
>
> I see no compelling reason to treat zero width spaces specially.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-18 22:39 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 [this message]
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
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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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