From: David Maus <maus.david@gmail.com>
To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: (probably stupid) link question
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:25:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wgiy4m4.wl%maus.david@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAD110A.4020609@sift.info>
At Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:34:34 -0500,
Robert Goldman wrote:
>
> I've saved a link to a latex file using org-save-link, but the link is
> not good enough to find the piece of the file I want. That is, Org-mode
> tries to jump to the link, but finds only the FIRST match, and it so
> happens that the location I wanted was the second or third.
Or fourth, or fifth... IMO using the default determin-link-target
approach of orgmode does not work well if you want to link to specific
parts of a (LaTeX) file: I remember that org-store-link uses the
current paragraph as the link target and that does not work well if
the so created target is a word that appears more than once in your
text (as it is in your case) or a whole paragraph, that *may* get
changed slightly with the result, that orgmode wouldn't find the
target to jump to.
> Or should I have been dropping an anchor into the latex file somehow,
> figuring that the link to "Summary" was just going to behave badly?
I solved the problem exactly in this way: I hacked down my very own
function that inserts a LaTeX macro with an uuid and stored a link to
this uuid. I used it to mark open questions/paragraphs/todos in my
master thesis -- with the desired effect, that I had an orgmode todo
list that showed the things I had to to.
Merely the elisp function got lost somehow so I cannot provide it at
the moment. I'll see if I can recreate the function during my next
hacking hours.
Regards,
-- David
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2009-09-13 15:34 (probably stupid) link question Robert Goldman
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