* apparent bug in org-insert-link with active region @ 2007-10-03 15:56 William Henney 2007-10-03 21:15 ` Bastien 2007-10-04 7:26 ` Carsten Dominik 0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: William Henney @ 2007-10-03 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: org-mode Hi list If I call org-insert-link with the region active, then the region content is instantly deleted while I am prompted for the link. This is rather disconcerting, but for most link types the region content magically reappears as the default value of the description. However, for "file:" links the default value of the description becomes the link itself, and the previous content of the region is lost (as far as I can see). Is this intended? This is with Org version 5.09 - I'm sure it used to work at some time in the past. Cheers Will -- Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: apparent bug in org-insert-link with active region 2007-10-03 15:56 apparent bug in org-insert-link with active region William Henney @ 2007-10-03 21:15 ` Bastien 2007-10-04 0:16 ` William Henney 2007-10-04 7:26 ` Carsten Dominik 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Bastien @ 2007-10-03 21:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com> writes: > If I call org-insert-link with the region active, then the region > content is instantly deleted while I am prompted for the link. This is > rather disconcerting, but for most link types the region content > magically reappears as the default value of the description. Yes, maybe the region shouldn't be deleted before the link is actually inserted. > However, for "file:" links the default value of the description > becomes the link itself, and the previous content of the region is > lost (as far as I can see). Is this intended? For me, the default value for the description is *always* the active region, this one being a simple string or a file link. So I expect the default value of the description itself being "the link itself", since it equals the active region... or did I miss something? -- Bastien ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: apparent bug in org-insert-link with active region 2007-10-03 21:15 ` Bastien @ 2007-10-04 0:16 ` William Henney 2007-10-04 10:44 ` Bastien 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: William Henney @ 2007-10-04 0:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bastien; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Hi Bastien Thanks for looking into this. On 10/3/07, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote: > "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com> writes: > > > If I call org-insert-link with the region active, then the region > > content is instantly deleted while I am prompted for the link. This is > > rather disconcerting, but for most link types the region content > > magically reappears as the default value of the description. > > Yes, maybe the region shouldn't be deleted before the link is actually > inserted. > > > However, for "file:" links the default value of the description > > becomes the link itself, and the previous content of the region is > > lost (as far as I can see). Is this intended? > > For me, the default value for the description is *always* the active > region, this one being a simple string or a file link. So I expect the > default value of the description itself being "the link itself", since > it equals the active region... or did I miss something? > Yes, I think you are... I wasn't saying that the active region was of the form "file:something", but rather that the link target was of that form. What happens for me is the following (when I do org-insert-link with the region active) 1. The region is deleted in the org buffer 2. I am shown the "Link:" prompt in the mini-buffer 3. I type in the link (or use arrows or return to grab a stored link) 4. I am shown the "Description:" prompt in the mini-buffer 5a. If the link I entered in step 3 was something like "http://foo.org", then all is well - the deleted region from step 1 appears as the default description. 5b. However, if the link I inserted in step 3 was something like "file:/etc/whatever", then I no longer get the deleted region as the default description. Instead, I just get "file:/etc/whatever" I hope this is clearer. I thought perhaps the problem was with my personal set-up, so I tried it with "emacs -Q -q -l minimal-org.el", where the file minimal-org.el is given below. I still see the problem (that is, behaviour 5b instead of 5a) whenever the link is of the form "file:/path/to/myfile" I have also found another apparent bug. When I do C-u C-c C-l, then (as described in the docs) I get prompted for a filename with path completion. However, this time the default description is blank (whether or not the region was active). Cheers Will ;;;--------------------- minimal-org.el ---------------------------- (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/emacs/lisp/org")) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode)) (define-key global-map "\C-cl" 'org-store-link) (require 'org-install) ;;;--------------------- minimal-org.el ---------------------------- -- Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: apparent bug in org-insert-link with active region 2007-10-04 0:16 ` William Henney @ 2007-10-04 10:44 ` Bastien 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Bastien @ 2007-10-04 10:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com> writes: > 5a. If the link I entered in step 3 was something like > "http://foo.org", then all is well - the deleted region from step 1 > appears as the default description. > > 5b. However, if the link I inserted in step 3 was something like > "file:/etc/whatever", then I no longer get the deleted region as the > default description. Instead, I just get "file:/etc/whatever" > > I hope this is clearer. Yes, much clearer! Thanks for the detailed explanations. -- Bastien ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: apparent bug in org-insert-link with active region 2007-10-03 15:56 apparent bug in org-insert-link with active region William Henney 2007-10-03 21:15 ` Bastien @ 2007-10-04 7:26 ` Carsten Dominik 2007-10-04 14:37 ` William Henney 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Carsten Dominik @ 2007-10-04 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: William Henney; +Cc: org-mode On Oct 3, 2007, at 17:56, William Henney wrote: > Hi list > > If I call org-insert-link with the region active, then the region > content is instantly deleted while I am prompted for the link. This is > rather disconcerting, but for most link types the region content > magically reappears as the default value of the description. However, > for "file:" links the default value of the description becomes the > link itself, and the previous content of the region is lost (as far as > I can see). Is this intended? > > This is with Org version 5.09 - I'm sure it used to work at some time > in the past. You have found a bug - fixed for 5.11. I am also keeping the region in the buffer until the last moment now, to ease your discomfort :-) Thanks. - Carsten -- Carsten Dominik Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 NL-1098SJ Amsterdam phone: +31 20 525 7477 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: apparent bug in org-insert-link with active region 2007-10-04 7:26 ` Carsten Dominik @ 2007-10-04 14:37 ` William Henney 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: William Henney @ 2007-10-04 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: org-mode On 10/4/07, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote: > You have found a bug - fixed for 5.11. I am also keeping the region > in the buffer until the last moment now, to ease your discomfort :-) Great, thanks. I am feeling more comfortable already :) Cheers Will -- Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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