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From: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug: Can not search for text in links - only description
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:20:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861tkj66gt.fsf@example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mw3767gk.fsf@berkeley.edu

Richard Lawrence wrote:
> Rainer M Krug <Rainer-vfylz/Ys1k4@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> I figured out that I can not search for text in the link.
>>
>> Thins is quite annoying, especially as I even thought of opening the
>> file in another texteditor, search for the string, and save it again.
>>
>> As an example: if this link is in an org-mode file, A search for "exa"
>> does not return any results.
>>
>> [[*Examples][Link to exp]]
>>
>> Is this a problem on my side?
>
> No, I confirm that that's how it works for me, too.  
>
> I am not sure if this counts as a bug or not, so someone else should
> still address this question.  Maybe this is the desired behavior, given
> that the link text is hidden?  Or maybe it's just not possible to search
> in hidden text?
>
> There's a less-drastic solution than switching to another editor though!
> You can just turn off Org mode...try M-x fundamental-mode, then run the
> search.

M-x visible-mode is your friend here.

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-20 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-20 13:44 Possible bug: Can not search for text in links - only description Rainer M Krug
2015-03-20 14:59 ` Richard Lawrence
2015-03-20 15:20   ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
2015-03-21 23:34   ` Alexis
2015-03-20 15:38 ` Jacob Gerlach
2015-03-20 16:50   ` Ken Mankoff
2015-03-20 18:06     ` Charles C. Berry
2015-03-22  0:08       ` Jacob Gerlach
2015-03-23 12:42       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-03-23 14:37         ` Achim Gratz
2015-03-23 16:56           ` Rainer M Krug
2015-03-23 12:40   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-03-20 17:53 ` Samuel Wales
2015-03-20 17:57   ` Jacob Gerlach
2015-03-31 13:46   ` Ken Mankoff
2015-03-31 20:07     ` Samuel Wales
2015-03-21 23:45 ` Randomcoder
2015-03-23 12:45 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-03-23 12:57   ` Jacob Gerlach

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