> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Nick Dokos <
nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> > Nick Dokos <
nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Not To Miss <
not.to.miss@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I looked that section carefully and the whole manual briefly. I
> >> > haven't found anything yet. That's why I am asking on the mailing list
> >> > to see if anyone has some workaround.
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Sean O'Halpin <
sean.ohalpin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Not To Miss <
not.to.miss@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >> Hi all,
> >> > >>
> >> > >> I am reading a long text file and want to write down my notes with
> >> > >> org-mode. I extremely would like to put the line numbers down along
> >> > >> with my notes. Although there is a way to store a link for text search
> >> > >> for the current line, I haven't found a way to create a link to a line
> >> > >> number in the current buffer. Is there anyway to do that? Thanks
> >> > >
> >> > > Take a look at org-capture:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Capture.html
> >>
> >
> >> The problem is to make sure org-store-link will actually store the line
> >> number (along with everything else) so that then org-insert-link can
> >> insert the link in the proper format. I don't think there is a function
> >> to do that out of the box for line numbers, but you can easily (for some
> >> value of "easily") write your own. Look in
> >>
> >> (info "(org)Adding hyperlink types")
> >>
> >> for some hints. Briefly, you write a function that checks whether it
> >> wants to deal with the link or not, and you add it to
> >> org-store-link-functions. I don't have the time to try it out right now,
> >> but I believe this should work for what you want.
> >>
> >
> > Following up on this, the following seems to work, although you probably
> > want to tweak the criterion of when you want *this* function to take
> > care of links - this particular implementation only applies the line
> > number treatment to links generated in the file named
> > "/path/to/the.file.txt" and only that file:
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > (defun org-file-lineno-store-link()
> > (when (string-equal (buffer-file-name) "/path/to/the.file.txt")
> > (let* ((link (format "file:%s::%d" (buffer-file-name) (line-number-at-pos))))
> > (org-store-link-props
> > :type "file"
> > :link link))))
> >
> > (add-hook 'org-store-link-functions 'org-file-lineno-store-link)
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > Nick
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best,
> Zhenjiang
>