Re: [O] [RFC] Fixing link encoding once and for all

[stardiviner]

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Do you mean Windows file names in existing Org files?  I.e. the
>> back-compatibility concern?
>>
>> If so, yes, I confess I didn't think at all about back-compatibility,
>> with my suggestion above.  So perhaps that rules my idea out.
>>
>> If we were starting from scratch, however,
>> - I believe it would technically be fine; i.e. it's a complete and
>> unambiguous encoding
>> - it might be considered awkward for Windows users to have to write
>> c:\\system32\\mydoc.txt instead of c:\system32\mydoc.txt, but I don't
>> know how big a concern that would be.
>
> Thinking a bit more about it, we don't need to escape /all/ square
> brackets, only "]]" and "][" constructs. Therefore, we don't need to
> escape every backslash either.
>
> The regexp for bracket links could be, in its simple (!) form:
>
>   \[\[\(.*?[^\\]\(?:\\\)*\)\]\(?:\[\([^\000]+?\)\]\)?\]
>
> Most links would need no change.  I see one notable exception:
> directories in Windows:
>
>   [[c:\system32\\]] for "c:\system32\"
>
> Some further notes:
>
> 1. Macros already use backslashes to escape commas in arguments, so it
>    is at least consistent with this part of Org.
>    
> 2. The description part of the link, like most parts of Org, does not
>    use backslash escaping. If needed, we can implement an entity for
>    a square bracket.
>
> 3. There will be some backward compatibility issues. We can add
>    a checker in Org Lint to catch most of those. For example, we could
>    look at URI where every percent is followed only by 25, 5B, and 5D.
>

About this, I'm curious, is it possible let this checker search and interactive
query replace with running recursively in a directory for all Org files. If Org
updated, I hope my Org documents are update too.

> WDYT?
>
> Regards,


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