Re: [RFC] Quoting property names in tag/property matches [Was: [BUG?] Matching tags: & operator no more implicit between tags and special property]

[Ihor Radchenko]

Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de> writes:

> Yet another edge-case: In the Org syntax definition a property
> name is really delimited by a "colon-whitespace" sequence.  This
> takes out the ambiguity whether a property name is defined
> non-greedily
>
>   :[^[:space:]]+?:
>
> or greedily
>
>   :[^[:space:]]+:
>
> I'm too lazy right now to think about the consequences, but I
> hope this makes a difference only for really weird property
> matches, like this:
>
>   :foo:=1+:bar:=2

Thus, -1 to this idea with ":" delimiter. If possible, we should avoid
edge cases. Otherwise, we are getting rid of the edge case with "-" by
introducing yet another edge case.

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