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[O] Bug: can't use square brackets in link descriptions;


From: Christoph LANGE
Subject: [O] Bug: can't use square brackets in link descriptions;
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:20:20 +0100
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Dear org-mode developers,

I am desperately trying to get a square bracket into the description of a link.

That is, in an org file that I want to export to HTML, I would like to have the source

<a href="http://example.org";>foo [bar]</a>

and of course I would like to avoid using XML character entities such as &#5b; for [, for two reasons:

1. It is painful.
2. I might eventually want to export my org file to some other format than HTML.

I noticed this post on escaping in org links (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37888), but apparently I didn't understand it.

I thought that escaping as %5B might work – not only in the "link" component of a link, where it works due to the specification of URIs, but also in the "description" component, but in the description it doesn't work.

Quite generally, I wonder whether there is (or, why there is not) a generic escape character (e.g. the backslash), which would also allow for escaping other characters of the org markup syntax, such as * or /.

So far this was something like a feature request, but there is also one actual bug:

When I insert or edit a link with org-insert-link (C-c C-l) and insert square brackets into the link description, they are rewritten to {...}, which I do not consider acceptable. If there is any escape syntax, they should rather be rewritten using that escape syntax.

Thanks in advance for any pointers,

Christoph

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