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From: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>
To: Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>,
	Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fixing link encoding once and for all
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:24:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKuG=vuBuugR1ZdDaxeCKKcmTGHUd5WBE+ufWUy=Cf1YxDGPNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgw9cxr8.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 10:49, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure how much freedom you have here, but I think it would be
> > both clearer - by avoiding confusion with URL-escaping - and easier to
> > type, to use an entirely different form of escaping in the Org syntax;
> > probably just this:
> >
> > \[ and \] to include a square bracket in a link
> > \\ to include a backslash
>
> Wouldn't that become problematic with file names in Windows?

Do you mean Windows file names in existing Org files?  I.e. the
back-compatibility concern?

If so, yes, I confess I didn't think at all about back-compatibility,
with my suggestion above.  So perhaps that rules my idea out.

If we were starting from scratch, however,
- I believe it would technically be fine; i.e. it's a complete and
unambiguous encoding
- it might be considered awkward for Windows users to have to write
c:\\system32\\mydoc.txt instead of c:\system32\mydoc.txt, but I don't
know how big a concern that would be.

Best wishes,
     Neil


> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-28 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-24  1:16 [RFC] Fixing link encoding once and for all Nicolas Goaziou
2019-02-24 23:04 ` Neil Jerram
2019-02-27 10:48   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-02-28 10:24     ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2019-03-01  8:14       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-01  8:30         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-01  8:40         ` Michael Brand
2019-03-01  8:41         ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-03-01  8:56           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-01  9:40             ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-03-03  6:58         ` stardiviner
2019-03-03  8:08           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-04 23:16         ` Neil Jerram
2019-03-05  0:23           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-05 16:27             ` Neil Jerram
2019-03-05 16:36               ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-25  8:54 ` stardiviner
2019-02-27  8:07 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-02-27 11:25   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-02-27 12:57     ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2019-02-28 10:51       ` Nicolas Goaziou

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