From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: maurizio.vitale@polymath-solutions.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: linking to region
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:44:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbushy38.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4zojcwe.fsf@cuma.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Maurizio Vitale's message of "Thu\, 24 Sep 2009 16\:39\:13 -0400")
Maurizio Vitale
<mav@cuma.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> writes:
>>>>>> "Bernt" == Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
>
> >> Is it possible to grab a link to a region in a file in such a way
> >> that C-c C-o visit the file after narrowing-to-region?
> >>
> >> The reason I'd like this is that I'm starting using org-mode for
> >> requirement tracking and when referencing a standard I'd find
> >> preferable to open only the relevant fragment rather than the
> >> complete document.
>
> Bernt> I don't think that's currently possible without writing a
> Bernt> little lisp code. There is an org-follow-link-hook but it
> Bernt> doesn't seem to be executed for all link types - only browser
> Bernt> urls if I'm reading the code correctly.
>
> But the region should be encoded in the link, as there no way to figure
> out what is the extent of the interesting area automatically.
Current links don't have region information - just a match to the first
occurrence of text in the file. What would a region link look like and
how would you generate one?
>
> Regarding org-follow-link-hook, I'm not familiar with org-mode code,
>but it seems to me that is invoked for all URL types, but only after
>the 'viewing' has happened. I may well be wrong.
That didn't seem to be the case for my quick test of the hook.
-Bernt
PS. Please use reply-all when responding otherwise I might miss articles
that are really addressed to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 17:38 linking to region Maurizio Vitale
2009-09-24 20:14 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-09-24 20:39 ` Maurizio Vitale
2009-09-24 20:44 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-09-24 20:52 ` Carsten Dominik
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