From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org-mode version 6.30; Links in categories break layout
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:41:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763c0593t.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F296E361-94B9-4620-A857-9F75910B539E@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:56:14 +0200")
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>> You said that links aren't supported in categories, but for a feature
>> that isn't supported, they work very well! In what sense are they not
>> supported?
>
> They are not supported in the sense that I never have tried to make
> them work as links. It is pure "accident" that they are activated
> as links, because there is a function running through to activate
> links that are in headlines, and by accident the regexp search
> matches in the prefix as well.
>
> They are not supported in the way that I guarantee them to continue to
> work in future versions.
>
> Unless this thread convinces me otherwise, of course. I can now
> see that they can be useful as a connection to an anchestor of the entry....
I found this case extremely useful:
>> ,----
>> | * PROJECT Implement BUG-1234, allow users to upload files
>> | :PROPERTIES:
>> | :CATEGORY: [[http://example.com/bugtracker/1234][BUG-1234]]
>> | :ORDERED: t
>> | :END:
>> | ...etc...
>> `----
>>
>> Then the global TODO list (C-c a t) shows this as:
>>
>> ,----
>> | BUG-1234:TODO Implement authentication
>> `----
>>
>> Where "BUG-1234" is a link that takes me to the bug tracker URL.
Wow, that way categories start to make sense. As for me, it's not the
category, it's just the chance to go to some other place from agenda,
but the entry itself. This could convince me to start to use categories
:)
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-02 17:46 Org-mode version 6.30; Links in categories break layout Peter Westlake
2009-09-03 6:50 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-09-03 11:12 ` Peter Westlake
2009-09-03 12:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-09-03 13:29 ` Peter Westlake
2009-09-03 13:56 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-09-03 15:41 ` Sebastian Rose [this message]
2009-09-03 16:23 ` Peter Westlake
2009-09-04 7:19 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-09-04 10:44 ` Peter Westlake
2009-09-23 12:12 ` Peter Westlake
2009-09-28 20:10 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-09-29 13:24 ` Peter Westlake
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