Escape pipe-character in org-mode
I've got a table in Emacs org-mode , and the contents are regular expressions. I can't seem to figure out how to escape a literal pipe-character ( | ) that's part of a regex though, so it's interpreted as a table-cell separator. Could someone point me to some help? Thanks. Update : I'm also looking for escapes for a slash ( / ), so that it doesn't trigger the start of an italic/emphasis sequence. I experimented with \/ and \// - for example, suppose I want the literal text /foo/ in a table cell. Here are 3 ways of attempting it: | /foo/ | \/foo/ | \//foo/ | In LaTeX export, that becomes: \emph