Re: [O] [feature] Macros can't contain accents

[Christian Moe]

On 6/23/12 10:58 AM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

> > Accented and a variety of other non-ascii characters do work in
> > targets, IDs and CUSTOM_IDs, in my experience.
>
> Right.
>
> > Org-target-regexp is simply "<<\\([^<>]+\\)>>", so it's not
> > picky. Perhaps the same could be done for macros (replacing angle
> > brackets with curly braces), without screwing anything up...?
>
> I'd rather do the opposite and restrict them all: this kind of regexp is
> slow to parse and there is little gain to allow any character in targets
> since they are all invisible now.

My user perspective differs: I'm happy to be able to use my 
language(s) freely in Org, even in the invisible bits, and would not 
trade it in for a speedup.

That said, I don't particularly mind the status quo on macros. They're 
code-like, and we're used to ascii restrictions on computer code.

Yours,
Christian