I sense a design flaw. Fix it rather than "escape" it.
Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> writes: > 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. > > 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. > > [1] IIRC, escaping doesn't happen if URL is copy-pasted but only if it > is "inserted". i.e., escaping much depends on the workflow of the user > and the workflow of a user could much depend on his whims and fancies > and day of the week and seasons of the year. > > Just a cent from a Org user.