From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Exporter aborts upon encountering even one unresolvable link Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 07:21:17 -0400 Message-ID: <87r3libxhu.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> References: <5608F1E4.2030704@friendlyvillagers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgWUx-0007oB-Ga for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 07:21:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgWUu-0001Hw-7U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 07:21:35 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgWUu-0001Hi-0h for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 07:21:32 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgWUs-0001Dt-2R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:21:30 +0200 Received: from pool-108-20-41-232.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([108.20.41.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:21:30 +0200 Received: from ndokos by pool-108-20-41-232.bstnma.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:21:30 +0200 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org thomas writes: > just my 2 cents: I think the new error message is very nice and helpful, UNLESS you work on a bigger document, narrow your buffer and try to export the narrowed portion of the > document. > This does not work anymore. > > I can agree with D. C. Toedt that it would be nice to have an easy way to customize this behaviour of the exporter. > See the thread with title "[RFC] Draft mode": http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/101542 > - thomas > > On 25.09.2015 04:50, D. C. Toedt wrote: > > I just updated to 8.3.1 from 8.3beta (from git).  That appears to have been a terrible mistake on my part. > > From this thread I see that the exporter now throws an error and aborts when it encounters an unresolvable link.  That makes things really, REALLY difficult.  It means I can't get > a complete, working export to HTML (in my case) until all link problems are fixed in my 22KLOC .org file (which I use to generate http://www.CommonDraft.org/index.html).  That > seems EXTREMELY suboptimal. (I'm trying to be tactful here.) > > Worse, the exporter doesn't even generate a list of unresolvable links before aborting.  That means the only way that I can find and fix busted links (so far as I know) is to do an > export --- which takes several minutes given the large file  --- and have the export abort on a single link. Then I fix that one link, export again, and have it abort again. > Repeat.  Aaaargggggg. > > I started looking at the hooks, as suggested in a message in the previous thread, but I'm not nearly skilled enough in elisp to be able to do anything useful. > > Any suggestions? > > D. C. Toedt III  (My last name is pronounced "Tate"; I go by "D. C.," which stands for Dell Charles)  > Attorney & neutral arbitrator -- tech contracts & IP  |  Adjunct professor, University of Houston Law Center > ​ Author, ​​ ​Common Draft desk book of contract clauses & research notes   |  LinkedIn: dctoedt   |   Calendar (redacted)  > E: dc@toedt.com    O: +1 (713) 364-6545    C: +1 (713) 516-8968 > ​ ​ >      > ​ > Houston, Texas (Central time zone) > > Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is not intended  > to serve as assent to an agreement or other document, whether or not > attached to this message. > -- Nick