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 <kjambunat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Daniel E. Doherty <ded-...@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 > > > > > > --
