arthur miller <[email protected]> writes:

>>> No to be a devils advoce, but I am not sure you do. If we look at:
>>[...]
>>> ‘%(EXP)’
>>>       Evaluate Elisp expression EXP and replace it with the result.  The
>>
>> I agree with Ihor that using "(EXP)" here should help to avoid ambiguity.
>
> I am sorry, I am not trying to be impolite, but they are both *equally*
> ambigous for the same reason I took up in previous two mails.

> ..
> It is not about being "ugly" or "pretty". It is about being consistent
> with Lisp. Double parenthesis arise in other places too, that is not a
> big deal in Lisp.

I have updated the documentation. Hopefully the ambiguity will not be
there anymore.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=0f534d5d6

I think %(EXP) notation comes back to diary sexp format %%(EXP) (see
33.10.5 Special Diary Entries in Emacs manual).

We have the same format in capture templates and also in agenda prefix
format.

Also, I find %((EXP)) less intuitive than %(EXP) and I never had any
issues with the existing format, so your perspective, while valid, is
not unique.

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