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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proper use of 'org-file-apps'
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:33:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761wzk79m.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130627065829.GB688@smoon

Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@gmail.com> writes:

> ** Nick Dokos [2013-06-27 01:52:49 -0400]:
>
>> Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :tangle org-apps-c.el
>> >   (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/org")
>> >   (require 'org)
>> >   (setq org-file-apps
>> >    '( ("\\.pdf::\\(\\d+\\)\\'" . "run-me --page %1 %s")
>> >       ("\\.pdf\\'" . "run-me %s")
>> >     )
>> >   )
>> > #+END_SRC
>
>
>> \d is Perl regexp syntax for matching a digit, but (afaik) not emacs
>> syntax. Try
>
>> >    '( ("\\.pdf::\\([0-9]+\\)\\'" . "run-me --page %1 %s")
>
>> or
>
>> >    '( ("\\.pdf::\\([[:digit:]]+\\)\\'" . "run-me --page %1 %s")
>
>> instead.
> D'oh, I had searched Emacs manual about meaning of \' but didn't try to
> check if \d is acceptable. Nevertheless, 'org-file-apps' docstring must
> be updated then, because this \\d part is from it.
>

Yes, indeed. There's also the vexing question of backslashes. At least
in my version of the C-h v org-file-apps output, the examples appear
with single backslashes in the quoted strings, so if somebody just cuts
and pastes, it is *not* going to work.

Could you make a patch?
-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-27 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-27  4:27 Proper use of 'org-file-apps' Vladimir Lomov
2013-06-27  5:52 ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-27  6:58   ` Vladimir Lomov
2013-06-27 13:33     ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2013-06-27 23:56       ` Vladimir Lomov
2013-06-28  2:14         ` Nick Dokos

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