Dear org-mode developers,
I am desperately trying to get a square bracket into the description of
a link.
That is, in an org file that I want to export to HTML, I would like to
have the source
<a href="http://example.org">foo [bar]</a>
and of course I would like to avoid using XML character entities such as
b; for [, for two reasons:
1. It is painful.
2. I might eventually want to export my org file to some other format
than HTML.
I noticed this post on escaping in org links
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37888), but apparently I
didn't understand it.
I thought that escaping as %5B might work – not only in the "link"
component of a link, where it works due to the specification of URIs,
but also in the "description" component, but in the description it
doesn't work.
Quite generally, I wonder whether there is (or, why there is not) a
generic escape character (e.g. the backslash), which would also allow
for escaping other characters of the org markup syntax, such as * or /.
So far this was something like a feature request, but there is also one
actual bug:
When I insert or edit a link with org-insert-link (C-c C-l) and insert
square brackets into the link description, they are rewritten to {...},
which I do not consider acceptable. If there is any escape syntax, they
should rather be rewritten using that escape syntax.
Thanks in advance for any pointers,
Christoph
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