In my Org Mode and Broken Links post I wrote about a problem with the way that Org 8 handles HTML links. If you want to know how great the Emacs Org Mode community is, read the comments to that post. First, David Maus, the developer who wrote much of the current escaping code, corrected my understanding of the problem: it’s not the escaping that’s the problem—it’s always been that way—it’s that the link was apparently not getting unescaped before export.
That was great information and pointed me to where I needed to look next: ox-html, the code that handles export to HTML. I’ve never looked at that code so I was dreading dredging through it. Happily, before I could begin, Rick, the maintainer of ox-html stopped by to report that he had pushed a fix for the problem.
Think about that for a moment. Someone on an obscure blog whines about a problem and two of the developers responsible for the code drop by to help out and fix the problem. It makes me love Org Mode even more and be grateful to be part of such a great community. A lot of this is probably true of many of the open source projects but, really, it’s hard to see how it could get much better than this.
Update: my understanding → corrected my understanding