Re: Exporter aborts upon encountering even one unresolvable link

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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"D. C. Toedt" <dc@toedt.com> writes:

> P.S.:   Thank heavens for Time Machine.

True - but mainly for other things.


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> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:50 PM, D. C. Toedt <dc@toedt.com> wrote:
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>> I just updated to 8.3.1 from 8.3beta (from git).  That appears to have
>> been a terrible mistake on my part.
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>> From this thread
>> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2015-09/msg00040.html>
>> I see that the exporter now throws an error and aborts when it encounters
>> an unresolvable link.  That makes things really, REALLY difficult.  It
>> means I can't get a complete, working export to HTML (in my case) until all
>> link problems are fixed in my 22KLOC .org file (which I use to generate
>> http://www.CommonDraft.org/index.html
>> <http://www.commondraft.org/index.html>).  That seems EXTREMELY
>> suboptimal. (I'm trying to be tactful here.)
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>> Worse, the exporter doesn't even generate a list of unresolvable links
>> before aborting.  That means the only way that I can find and fix busted
>> links (so far as I know) is to do an export --- which takes several minutes
>> given the large file  --- and have the export abort on a single link.
>> Then I fix that one link, export again, and have it abort again. Repeat.
>> Aaaargggggg.
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>> I started looking at the hooks, as suggested in a message in the previous
>> thread, but I'm not nearly skilled enough in elisp to be able to do
>> anything useful.
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>> Any suggestions?
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