Re: [PATCH] org-export: Remove zero-width space escapes during export

[Timothy <orgmode@tec.tecosaur.net>]

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Hi Ihor,

> I am attaching a tentative patch that will make Org export remove
> zero-width spaces when those spaces actually separate the object
> boundaries.
>
> Any objections?

IMO this is an immanently sensible idea. I added an export filter like this to
my config basically as soon as I found out about zero-width spaces.

One minor quibble, I find the name mildly misleading. When you say “escaped” I
think of escaped characters, which isn’t really connected to what the zero width
does. I’d personally be inclined to call the zero width space an “invisible
semantic separator”.

> +(defun org-export–remove-escaped (data info)
> +  “Remove escape symbols from plain-text in DATA.
> +DATA is a parse tree or a secondary string.  INFO is a plist
> +containing export options.  It is modified by side effect and
> +returned by the function.”

How about:

┌────
│ (defun org-export--remove-semantic-separators (data info)
│   "Remove Org-specific semantic separators from plain-text in DATA.
│ DATA is a parse tree or a secondary string.  INFO is a plist
│ containing export options.  It is modified by side effect and
│ returned by the function."
└────

All the best,
Timothy