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,

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Nicolas Goaziou