At Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:06:54 +0530, Jambunathan K wrote: > > > If Org links are escaped by Org will the URLs be functional outside of > Org? > > i.e., If I am on some machine, that has no Emacs or Org or if I am using > a version of Org that uses "new unescape" algorithm but the original > link was encoded with the "old escape" algorithm, will Copy-pasting the > link to a browser still work.
I think this is a good point or rather two good points: One is BC. If we change the escaping algorithm we still have to deal with possibly tons of old-style-links in user files. The other one is that leaving the edge cases aside it is possible to just copy a link and paste it into the target application -- a percent sign signifies percent encoding and the target application knows what to do. > If Org is a MUST to unescape the link then it would be a good decision > to re-look at the link syntax so that the questions of escape and > un-escape is dealt with squarely and have no reasons to arise in future. > I'm not sure if it is worth the effort but, in theory, we could do define our own URI schema `org' that disallows square brackets. If a link is created programmatically (org-store-link et al.) we do not store the URI as-is but as an "Orgmode-Link": Escape the square brackets and prefix the link with `org:'. If we open a link we check for the `org:'-prefix, reverse the escaping and handle the link to the registered module. If the prefix is absent we skip the unescaping step. Best, -- David -- OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6 Jabber.... dmj...@jabber.org Email..... dm...@ictsoc.de
