From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: Pipe character in a table cell? Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 20:05:32 +0530 Message-ID: <81y5ocl6ff.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87txz0bddc.wl%ded-law@ddoherty.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SZ12y-0003xi-PZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2012 10:35:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SZ12t-0001rk-Tv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2012 10:35:48 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:45398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SZ12t-0001rG-KS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2012 10:35:43 -0400 Received: by pbbrp2 with SMTP id rp2so4867422pbb.0 for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 07:35:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87txz0bddc.wl%ded-law@ddoherty.net> (Daniel E. Doherty's message of "Mon, 28 May 2012 09:15:43 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Daniel E. Doherty" Cc: Org-mode List Daniel E. Doherty writes: > All, > > I would like to put a string with an embedded pipe character in the > cell. The idea is to display regular expressions, which inevitably > contain pipe characters. I've tried /one|two/, one\|two, "one|two", and even > "one\|two", but they all split the entry into two cells. > > Is there anyway to escape the pipe character so that the cell is not > split by it? > > If not, may I suggest this as a feature request. Preferably, allow a > pipe to be embedded in quotes to be ignored? \vert > Regards > > Dan Doherty > > --