Re: [PATCH] org-id-goto doesn't work if buffer is narrowed.

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

In my solution I do store the buffer. Maybe for some reason the id is in
another buffer with narrowing, and you want to preserve that narrowing
when you return. I originally did that with a marker, so you could
restore point to, but I decided to take that out. I wasn't aware you
could have dangling markers! I guess you would want to use more global
variables, so there would only be two. and hopefully you don't follow
multiple id links through narrowed buffers in a row!


Rasmus writes:

> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>> I like the idea too. I worked out a partial solution for id links here:
>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/10/24/Saving-the-current-restriction-and-restoring-it-while-following-links/
>> using the idea for saving and restoring the restriction.
>
> Thanks, John.
>
> You will probably want to use markers since one might edit stuff
> in-between the widening and going back to the narrow.
>
>      http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Overview-of-Markers.html#Overview-of-Markers
>
> Markers should be cleaned up, which might prove difficult since one might
> not go back with C-c &, but you can at least ensure that at most two loose
> markers exists (potentially per Org buffer).
>
> Also, I wonder if there exits cases where you would need to store the
> buffer as well as the narrow points...  I guess not?
>
> Thanks,
> Rasmus

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