From: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
To: excalamus@tutanota.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: alist keys: strings or symbols
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 02:23:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1rl7w0mh.dag@gnui.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MCbssBv--3-2@tutanota.com> (excalamus's message of "Sun, 19 Jul 2020 18:23:52 +0200 (CEST)")
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excalamus@tutanota.com wrote:
> The string may also have characters illegal for use as a symbol.
Namely?
> Here's what happens with illegal symbol characters in the string.
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results verbatim :session exc
> (setq exc-bad-meta-data
> (concat
> "#+THE TITLE: Test post\n"
> "#+AUTHOR: Excalamus\n"
> "#+DATE: 2020-07-17\n"
> "#+POST TAGS: blogging tests\n"
> "\n"))
>
> (setq exc-alist-i-bad (exc-parse-org-meta-data-intern exc-bad-meta-data))
> exc-alist-i-bad
> #+end_src
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : ((AUTHOR . "Excalamus") (DATE . "2020-07-17"))
>
> How are situations like these best handled?
You mean space? Space perfectly valid character for a symbol.
I suppose, the result above is due to space being invalid character for org-mode metadata. ;-)
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