> 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.
