Re: Org-mode version 6.30; Links in categories break layout

["Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com>]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:56 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:12 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
> > <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
...
> > You said that links aren't supported in categories, but for a feature
> > that isn't supported, they work very well! In what sense are they not
> > supported?
> 
> They are not supported in the sense that I never have tried to make
> them work as links.  It is pure "accident" that they are activated
> as links, because there is a function running through to activate
> links that are in headlines, and by accident the regexp search
> matches in the prefix as well.
>
> They are not supported in the way that I guarantee them to continue to
> work in future versions.
> 
> Unless this thread convinces me otherwise, of course.  I can now
> see that they can be useful as a connection to an anchestor of the  
> entry....

Well, I would be in favour of that - as you may have guessed!
It's very convenient to have the link always be there without
having to put it into every entry.

Peter.

P.S. Apologies if you get two copies of this - X crashed while I was
sending it.