Re: [PATCH] Possibility of using alternative separators in macros

[Eric S Fraga]

Hello Juan,

On Friday, 30 Apr 2021 at 13:26, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose (patch attached) the possibility of using an
> alternate character for separate arguments in replacement macros,
> following a suggestion from Nicolas Goaziou in this (closed) thread:
> https://orgmode.org/list/87o8ead42u.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr/

I finally got around to trying this out, applying the patch just now to
the latest org from the git repository.  I get the following when I try
to export:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable sep)
  org-element-macro-parser()
  org-element--object-lex((bold code entity export-snippet footnote-reference 
inline-babel-call inline-src-block italic line-break latex-fragment link macro 
radio-target statistics-cookie strike-through subscript superscript target 
timestamp underline verbatim))
  org-element-context()
  org-macro-replace-all((("date" . "") ("title" . "The title") ("email" . "") 
("author" . "Professor Eric S Fraga") ("lastchange" . "2021.03.31 15:03") 
("calc" . "@@latex:{\\color{green!50!black}\\texttt{ $1 }}@@") ("cite" . 
"[[$2][@@latex:\\vfill\\Citation{$1}@@]]") ("overlay" . 
"@@latex:\\begin{textblock}{$4}($2,$3)@@[[file:$1]]@...") ("parameter" . 
"src_elisp[:results value raw :var $1=(esf/get-para...") ("constant" closure 
(t) (&optional $1 &rest _) (progn (message "Getting constant %s" $1) 
(org-table-get-constant $1))) ("input-file" . "m.org") ("modification-time" . 
#f(compiled-function (arg1 &optional arg2 &rest _) #<bytecode 
0x1a91bc3b547f3a1c>)) ("keyword" lambda (arg1 &rest _) 
(org-macro--find-keyword-value arg1)) ("n" lambda (&optional arg1 arg2 &rest _) 
(org-macro--counter-increment arg1 arg2)) ("property" lambda (arg1 &optional 
arg2 &rest _) (org-macro--get-property arg1 arg2)) ("time" lambda (arg1 &rest 
_) (format-time-string arg1))) ("DESCRIPTION" "KEYWORDS" "SUBTITLE" "DATE" 
"TITLE" "DATE" "AUTHOR"))
  org-export-as(latex nil nil nil nil)
  org-export-to-buffer(latex "*Org LATEX Export*" nil nil nil nil nil 
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xbb0539acd91d>))
  org-latex-export-as-latex(nil nil nil nil)
  org-export-dispatch(nil)
  funcall-interactively(org-export-dispatch nil)
  command-execute(org-export-dispatch)

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.5-534-g8f03cd.dirty