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
>