From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Not To Miss <not.to.miss@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: anyway to create link to a line number in a file
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:29:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24089.1329845389@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Not To Miss <not.to.miss@gmail.com> of "Tue\, 21 Feb 2012 12\:16\:51 EST." <CAAp=d8ofiU2HvDXbXBxO_NOKp0N_j_iWxjMV+xq=N4V340rjBw@mail.gmail.com>
Not To Miss <not.to.miss@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ideally, it would
> > be great if in the normal stored org link, line number could be
> > included in the link and would be ripped off from the text to search
> > the linked file.
> >
>
> I'm confused - what exactly are you asking for here? If you don't use
> the line number for searching, why would you want to store it?
>
> Because I think sometimes the line number gives valuable information
> in addition to the text. I meant to create a link like
> [[file:foo.txt::123 whatever_text]], when users open the link,
> org-mode searches "whatever_text"; if it doesn't find anything, jump
> to the line 123. The idea behind that is that it is possible the line
> is changed and is unsearchable but still remains in the same line
> number.
I guess the main idea is that it is more likely for the text around the
link to remain the same: the line number can change (e.g. if you add
stuff at the beginning of the file), but the surrounding text will
probably remain the same, so a context search is more likely to find you
what you want. But you are right in that a line number can sometimes
disambiguate things, e.g. the etags functionality in emacs works
(worked? not sure if the implementation is still the same) by using a
position to go to and then searching in ever-widening circles around
that position in order to find the appropriate context. That way,
identical contexts could be used (a necessity for etags) and still be
distinguished from each other.
> This, however, is probably an issue of built-in org-mode
> design, beyond the scope of user customization.
>
Yup.
Nick
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-17 16:54 anyway to create link to a line number in a file Not To Miss
2012-02-18 14:03 ` Sean O'Halpin
2012-02-18 16:31 ` Not To Miss
2012-02-18 17:11 ` Eric Schulte
2012-02-18 17:30 ` Not To Miss
2012-02-18 17:31 ` Nick Dokos
2012-02-18 21:58 ` Nick Dokos
2012-02-20 4:43 ` Not To Miss
2012-02-20 5:58 ` Nick Dokos
2012-02-21 17:16 ` Not To Miss
2012-02-21 17:29 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
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