From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: "Nicolas Bercher (Aʟᴏɴɢ-Tʀᴀᴄᴋ)" <nbercher@along-track.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [IT] Broken support for links to text files (both internal & external)
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:36:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgh63jv5.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cad6675-4cd6-d8fd-6b1c-0c94a9aa2890@along-track.com> (Nicolas Bercher's message of "Mon, 8 Jan 2018 18:56:47 +0100")
Hello,
"Nicolas Bercher (Aʟᴏɴɢ-Tʀᴀᴄᴋ)" <nbercher@along-track.com> writes:
> HOWEVER, in the case of links pointing to headlines, the matching to has
> to be EXACT (but it was not necessary in earlier version since 2011 at
> least) otherwise I get the message below:
>
> "No match for fuzzy expression: <random text>"
>
> Do you know if I can revert some option to make the sample below to work
> again?
You cannot. This option somehow disappeared years ago.
Note that you can complete "[[*" with M-<TAB>, which can help a bit. If
the feature is considered useful anyway,
`org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline' is not the right way to
solve this. With this variable, that the same document can mean two
different things, which cripples portability.
For example, the following document
* XX
Contents 1
* X
Contents 2
* Headline
See [[*X]].
means two different things if you set
`org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline' to nil and I don't.
Granted, you can use file local variables to fix a given value in the
document, but that doesn't sound right. Org format ought to be more
self-contained.
So, here's an idea. We could drop
`org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline' (the `query-to-create' value
could be handled in a dedicated variable) and introduce a new syntax for
regexp searches:
[[?random words]] and [[*?random words]]
This way, where the link should point to is explicit.
The question about export is still open. [[*?random words]] targets
a headline it can be handled the usual way. However [[?random words]]
may target anything, including parts of the document that cannot be
referenced easily (e.g., comments, the contents of an example block...).
Another option is to keep only [[*?random words]] since we cannot handle
the other properly. Note that, even without this feature, you can still
use targets for specific locations in the buffer:
Some <<here>>long text
[[here]]
I have the feeling that a feature like [[?random words]] (and
`org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline') is going to bite us
someday.
WDYT?
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-09 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 16:20 [IT] Broken support for links to text files (both internal & external) Nicolas Bercher (Aʟᴏɴɢ-Tʀᴀᴄᴋ)
2018-01-05 6:42 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-01-05 7:32 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-01-05 12:10 ` Nicolas Bercher (Aʟᴏɴɢ-Tʀᴀᴄᴋ)
2018-01-05 12:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-01-05 16:15 ` Nicolas Bercher (Aʟᴏɴɢ-Tʀᴀᴄᴋ)
2018-01-05 17:47 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-01-05 20:16 ` Tim Cross
2018-01-08 17:56 ` Nicolas Bercher (Aʟᴏɴɢ-Tʀᴀᴄᴋ)
2018-01-09 19:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2018-01-10 3:44 ` Samuel Wales
2018-01-10 3:46 ` Samuel Wales
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