From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: bug#20090: improperly closed Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 22:21:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87d13va4oc.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> References: <5500BF9E.7010608@gmx.com> <20171203190840.eqaju3peslti3w6n@E15-2016.optimum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45548) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLbiA-0000cQ-CT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2017 16:22:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLbi7-00052X-7A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2017 16:22:06 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:35207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLbi7-00052O-35 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2017 16:22:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eLbi6-0006Lp-EP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2017 16:22:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20171203190840.eqaju3peslti3w6n@E15-2016.optimum.net> (Boruch Baum's message of "Sun, 3 Dec 2017 14:09:40 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Boruch Baum Cc: 20090@debbugs.gnu.org Boruch Baum writes: > Bug report 20090 was perfunctorily closed today: > 1] without the person who performed the action consulting with the bug > reporter; You're free to re-open the bug or create another one if you disagree. For the record, I don't consider this to be a bug, but a feature request. > 2] without any discussion for over 2.5 years; I hope you are not blaming me for that. > 3] with a reason given that demonstrates that the person who performed > the action didn't give the action much of any thought; Yet, I gave it more thought than anyone in 2.5 years! > In this particular case, the person who closed the bug apparently looked > at the sentence fragment 'does not work for positions within an info node (eg. > line 85 of node x)', and confused the term `eg' with the term 'ie'. How nice. > At this point, emacs is uniquely inferior to all major 'word processors' > in that it does not support the feature described in the bug, ie. the > ability to link to a specific position within a document. > > Pretty basic, no? Pretty inaccurate, actually. Org is able to link to a specific position within an Org document, and to a specific line in any plain text document. Your feature request is to link to a specific position in a document written in a foreign, processed format, namely Info. I cannot think of any reliable way to do so (e.g., "going to the node, and searching for a string" doesn't qualify as "reliable"). If you have an idea about it, I suggest to first implement it as a custom link type, and open a proper feature request, or report it on the Org mailing list. Another option is to wait for 2.5 years again and despise the next person to close this report. Regards,