From: Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net>
To: Org-mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Pipe character in a table cell?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 10:44:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obp871jy.wl%ded-law@ddoherty.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81y5ocl6ff.fsf@gmail.com>
KJ,
Thanks. I had not noticed that little footnote in the Org manual. This
allows me to read and display the regular expression, so that's
progress.
I am a bit concerned about the fate of a naive user who comes to editing
the thing, but how naive can you be if your editing regular expressions,
right?
Regards,
Dan
At Mon, 28 May 2012 20:05:32 +0530,
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net> writes:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I would like to put a string with an embedded pipe character in the
> > cell. The idea is to display regular expressions, which inevitably
> > contain pipe characters. I've tried /one|two/, one\|two, "one|two", and even
> > "one\|two", but they all split the entry into two cells.
> >
> > Is there anyway to escape the pipe character so that the cell is not
> > split by it?
> >
> > If not, may I suggest this as a feature request. Preferably, allow a
> > pipe to be embedded in quotes to be ignored?
>
> \vert
>
> > Regards
> >
> > Dan Doherty
> >
> >
>
> --
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2012-05-28 14:15 Pipe character in a table cell? Daniel E. Doherty
2012-05-28 14:35 ` Jambunathan K
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