[Pmwiki-users] Re: "null characters" or "pattern breaking characters"

[Patrick R. Michaud]

John Rankin had proposed (and uses) backticks (`) as a null token to break
patterns and prevent things from being treated as WikiWords.  The original 
thread begins at 
http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users_pmichaud.com/2003-April/000364.html .
There was also some further discussion in the thread starting at
http://contra.vosn.net/pipermail/pmwiki-users_pmichaud.com/2003-May/000471.html

I like the backtick better than any other sequence or idea I've seen
proposed.  Any comments/suggestions from others?  I'd really be interested
to hear John's comments and experiences on this.

Pm


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:49:50AM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Here's an idea for handling the problem with patterns that swallow too 
> much. Let's introduce a special character/token whose only purpose is to 
> break pattern matches. 
> 
> I've added notes about this here:
> 	http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Test/NullToken