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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: overzealous file link creation
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:42:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9DBEB2B1-7CB9-422E-827E-4A240A28A7D9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vnhypy8.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk>


On Aug 12, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Dan Davison wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Dan Davison wrote:
>>
> <...>
>>> Try putting the following fragment into python-mode, and getting rid
>>> of
>>> the asterisks. Then org-cycle issued with point at any of the
>>> asterisked
>>> locations eats the string 'file' and prompts for a link.
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> def f(filepath):
>>>   print(
>>>       *filepath*)*
>>> *
>>> *def g(arg):
>>>   return arg
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>> This is with latest git.
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> could you please check the following variables:
>>
>> org-tab-first-hook
>
> ,----
> | org-tab-first-hook is a variable defined in `org.el'.
> | Its value is
> | (org-insert-link-maybe org-hide-block-toggle-maybe)
> `----
>
> OK, that was it, thanks. I had
>
> (add-hook 'org-tab-first-hook 'org-insert-link-maybe)
>
> I believe org-insert-link-maybe (code below) is something that Eric
> threw together: am I right in thinking it has not been incorporated  
> into
> org core?
>
> In any case, could someone help me with the regexp problem I  
> encountered
> when I tried to improve it? Here's the original version
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>  (defun org-insert-link-maybe ()
>    "insert a file link depending on the context"
>    (interactive)
>    (let ((case-fold-search t))
>      (if (save-excursion
>            (when (re-search-backward "[[:space:]]" nil t) (forward- 
> char 1)
>                  (looking-at "\\[?\\[?file:?")))
>          (progn (replace-match "") (org-insert-link '(4)) t)
>        nil)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I want to (a) restrict it to looking at the current line and (b) not
> allow it to match words like 'filepath'. This seems to be almost there
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun org-insert-link-maybe ()
>  "insert a file link depending on the context"
>  (interactive)
>  (let ((case-fold-search t))
>    (if (save-excursion
> 	  (backward-word)
> 	  (looking-at "\\[?\\[?file:?[ \t\n\f\v\r]"))
> 	(progn (replace-match "") (org-insert-link '(4)) t)
>      nil)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But this doesn't match 'file' followed by end-of-buffer. I want a
> character class that matches any of
> {space,tab,newline,end-of-buffer}. How do I do that? It seems that
> although "\\'" matches end-of-buffer, it doesn't work in a character
> class ("[\\']")?

"\\(?:[ \t\n]\\|\\'\\)"

HTH

- Carsten

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-11 20:29 overzealous file link creation Dan Davison
2009-08-11 21:36 ` Nick Dokos
2009-08-12  7:52 ` Manish
2009-08-12  8:32   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-08-12  8:30 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-08-12 16:09   ` Dan Davison
2009-08-12 16:42     ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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