Sorry to send this question again:
> Are there cases where %\1 ... %\N would be used *outside* of a string in a
> template?
Jean-Christophe
> On Jun 30, 2017, at 20:04, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 30, 2017, at 18:47, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> * TODO %^{prompt} [/]\n** TODO %\1 %^{prompt} %^t\n
>>>
>>> gives
>>>
>>> * TODO stuff [/]
>>>
>>> ** TODO %^A stuff <date>
>>>
>>> Why is that ?
>>
>> In a string, backslash needs to be escaped: %\\1
>
> That's certainly something to add to the documentation:
>
> %\1 ... %\N Insert the text entered at the Nth %^{prompt}, where N is a
> number, starting from 1.
>
> Are there cases where %\1 ... %\N would be used *outside* of a string in a
> template?
>
> Jean-Christophe
