> That's the problem. "simple plist" brings with it all the Elisp syntax,
> including all kinds of weird escape rules.
It is a problem. But as users rarely look into links and as links should be 
generated automatically in any good workflow, I do not find it is too big of a 
problem.

Anyway, are you suggesting to move to another syntax, eg, perl's regexp?
That could make sense with another dedicated property maybe, eg, 
:regexp-perl-syntax. 
As I would expect that the default uses elisp regexp.


"Ihor Radchenko" <[email protected]> writes:

> Julien Dallot <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> The main question is how to deal with "...". And what about something
>>> like (list 'foo) vs (foo). Or ?a vs 97.
>
>> Let's first consider the simplest method (strictly from a
>> programming pov): assume the metadata is just a plist that was
>> escaped to fit into the link's syntax.
>
> That's the problem. "simple plist" brings with it all the Elisp syntax,
> including all kinds of weird escape rules.


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