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From: stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] Changes to link syntax
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:04:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736nlkn6u.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wol0tnjr.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>


Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi, @Nicolas, will you release a method to update all existing Org
>> file links?
>
> This is not limited to file links.
>
> There is no method that can, with certainty, convert old syntax into the
> new one. More accurately, it is possible to convert them with:
>
>     (org-link-escape (org-link-decode URI))
>
> but in some cases, it may be difficult to tell when the URI should be
> decoded in the first place.
>
> I suggest to first try the linter on a document. Once we know it detects
> with a good ratio links to convert, we can write a wrapper to also
> convert them.

I agree, but I have so many Org files.

#+begin_src sh :async
find ~/Org/ -iname "*.org" -print | wc -l
#+end_src

#+RESULTS[<2019-03-16 16:34:21> d5afbee25c7529c23db70bb758b4bb1e7bdad9a3]:
: 9872

So I have to consider a safer and larger method to upgrade link. I can't
manually open every Org files and run linter on them. (Maybe linter can run on
Org files automatically in programtically way?) Seems I can wait for better
solution now.

>
>> I don't know which special escaped characters need to be converted.
>
> %20, %25, %5B and %5D.

This is helpful, I will try to use external command-line tools to search and
replace them. Like ripgrep.el wapper, etc. Then use wgrep mode to query-replace.
This might be more safely.

I'm wandering whether is it possible to extract my Org links out for testing
before I really apply upgrade solution on my mess Org files. Because once I
applied method, I will lose original data. Of course I can backup all files. I
did backup them regularly about 1 week repeatedly.

Also this upgrade experience can help Org Mode figure out a flow about how to do
backward compatibility broken steps. That will reduce other user's damage. :)

Seems this will keep me spin on before new link syntax commit for a while. I
always catch up the latest Org Mode code as I like it so much.

>
> Regards,

Thanks for your working :)

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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-18  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-10 17:19 [ANN] Changes to link syntax Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-10 20:02 ` Samuel Wales
2019-03-10 22:13   ` Amin Bandali
2019-03-12 13:44     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-10 23:00 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2019-03-11 16:35   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-11 17:06     ` Eric S Fraga
2019-03-11 17:31     ` Daniele Nicolodi
2019-03-11 17:27 ` Marco Wahl
2019-03-11 18:00   ` Diego Zamboni
2019-03-11 23:07     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-12  5:42       ` Diego Zamboni
2019-03-15  5:23 ` stardiviner
2019-03-15 10:55   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-18  1:04     ` stardiviner [this message]
2019-03-18 21:33       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-19  8:06         ` stardiviner
2019-03-15 11:55   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-03-26  9:08     ` stardiviner
2019-03-27  2:00     ` stardiviner
2019-04-02 21:16       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-04-07 11:20       ` stardiviner

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