[Accepted] [Orgmode] Quote any special characters in org-make-target-link-regexp

[Carsten Dominik]

Patch 483 (http://patchwork.newartisans.com/patch/483/) is now "Accepted".

Maintainer comment: No comment

This relates to the following submission:

http://mid.gmane.org/%3C1292338919-22555-1-git-send-email-wence%40gmx.li%3E

Here is the original message containing the patch:

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> Subject: [Orgmode] Quote any special characters in org-make-target-link-regexp
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:01:59 -0000
> From: Lawrence Mitchell <address@hidden>
> X-Patchwork-Id: 483
> Message-Id: <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Lawrence Mitchell <address@hidden>
> 
> * lisp/org.el (org-make-target-link-regexp): regexp-quote target
> before replacing whitespace.
> 
> Previously a radio link <<<...>>> would match all three-letter words
> in the buffer.  The manual indicates the radio links are meant to
> match literally (modulo whitespace differences), so we should
> regexp-quote all the targets to avoid over-eager matching.
> 
> ---
> This problem bit me when writing up some notes on CUDA, which uses
> <<<...>>> to indicate a function call from a CPU onto a GPU.  I think
> this is the right fix, since I can't imagine a situation where you
> would want <<<foo.bar>>> to match foo.bar, rather than foo\\.bar.
> 
>  lisp/org.el |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index 6d1062c..5733d67 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -5424,6 +5424,7 @@ between words."
>       "\\<\\("
>       (mapconcat
>        (lambda (x)
> +        (setq x (regexp-quote x))
>          (while (string-match " +" x)
>            (setq x (replace-match "\\s-+" t t x)))
>          x)
>