Re: Org-mode version 6.30; Links in categories break layout

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Peter Westlake <peter.westlake@pobox.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org-mode version 6.30; Links in categories break layout
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:56:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F296E361-94B9-4620-A857-9F75910B539E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251984567.29809.1333027499@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:

>
> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:12 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
> <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:50 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
>>> <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Peter,
>>>>
>>>> links in categories are not supported......
>>>
>>> The thing is, they ever so nearly *are* supported: they are
>>> fontified as links, and they work if you click on them or type C-c
>>> o. The only thing that isn't quite right is this small cosmetic
>>>   matter of the missing spaces.
>>>
>>> Having a link as a category is very useful, because categories have
>>> meaning and the link can take you to it. Most of mine are links to
>>> bug reports or feature requests, for instance.
>>
>> But TAB on the entry will get you there as well, right?
>
> TAB in the agenda takes me to the entry, TAB in the entry opens it up,
> and all of those things work properly. Click, ENTER, or C-c o in the
> category column of the agenda will follow the link if the category  
> text
> contains one. All of that works properly too.
>
> To clarify, my second paragraph there was just saying how useful links
> are in categories. It isn't part of the bug report. That's just about
> missing spaces.
>
> You said that links aren't supported in categories, but for a feature
> that isn't supported, they work very well! In what sense are they not
> supported?

They are not supported in the sense that I never have tried to make
them work as links.  It is pure "accident" that they are activated
as links, because there is a function running through to activate
links that are in headlines, and by accident the regexp search
matches in the prefix as well.

They are not supported in the way that I guarantee them to continue to
work in future versions.

Unless this thread convinces me otherwise, of course.  I can now
see that they can be useful as a connection to an anchestor of the  
entry....

- Carsten

>
> I use categories like this:
>
> ,----
> | * PROJECT Implement BUG-1234, allow users to upload files
> |   :PROPERTIES:
> |   :CATEGORY: [[http://example.com/bugtracker/1234][BUG-1234]]
> |   :ORDERED: t
> |   :END:
> | ** DONE Design uploader UI
> | ** TODO Implement authentication
> | ** TODO Write a form for directory navigation
> | ...etc...
> `----
>
> Then the global TODO list (C-c a t) shows this as:
>
> ,----
> | BUG-1234:TODO Implement authentication
> `----
>
> Where "BUG-1234" is a link that takes me to the bug tracker URL.  
> Except
> that the layout is a bit wrong:
>
> ,----
> | plaintext:  TODO Item with a plain text category
> | BUG-1234:TODO Implement authentication
> | plaintext:  TODO Item with a plain text category
> `----
>
> There should be some spaces after the colon on the second line,
> "BUG-1234:   TODO", so it lines up with the other entries.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter.
>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>>> - Carsten
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen
>>>>> and what in fact did happen.  You don't know hoe to make a good
>>>>> report? See
>>>>>
>>>>>   http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback
>>>>>
>>>>> Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list.
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ------
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's a plain-text view of my agenda that shows the problem:
>>>>>
>>>>> meta:       TODO Report invisible scheduled items
>>>>> [[foo][test]]:TODO Get layout right when category is a link
>>>>>
>>>>> Because the link is displayed as "test" in the link face, it
>>>>> is only four characters long, so it should have seven spaces
>>>>> after it.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Aside: I wondered if this might be simple enough for me to fix it
>>>>> myself. Turns out not :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>>>>> 2.12.12)of 2009-07-30 on elegiac, modified by Debian Package: Org-
>>>>>        mode version 6.30
>>>>>
>>>>>
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