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From: gerard.vermeulen@posteo.net
To: Dan Drake <dan.drake@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
	emacs-orgmode-bounces+gerard.vermeulen=posteo.net@gnu.org
Subject: Re: inconsistency links and code line labels
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 05:57:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db0d52164322243ce1a9f6d318aa2195@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKqbAeEpzFarKhyo_z0eMFzZRN=TQpct5doQfCw2RO_t5Rzp+g@mail.gmail.com>



On 06.07.2023 14:49, Dan Drake wrote:
> 
> There's a bug [[(my-code-line-label)][right here]].
> 
> This seems inconsistent. Why do I have to omit the ref: bit? This
> always confuses me; it seems like it would be simpler to just make the
> label and the links to that line of code be exactly the same. I don't
> see any particular reference to this in the org manual
> (https://orgmode.org/manual/Internal-Links.html [2]). Any insights?
> 
> My idea would be to get rid of the special behavior for code line
> labels and just make this work with dedicated targets: in regular
> parts of my org file, I use <<link-target>> and can make links to
> that. It would be simple and consistent to make that also work the
> same when <<link-target>> is inside a code block.
> 
Such link targets would conflict with <<code-block-id>> references
See: https://orgmode.org/manual/Noweb-Reference-Syntax.html

Therefore something like the behavior described in
https://orgmode.org/manual/Literal-Examples.html
must have been invented (look at the description of the -n, -r, and
-l switches).

Regards -- Gerard


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-07  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-06 12:49 inconsistency links and code line labels Dan Drake
2023-07-07  5:57 ` gerard.vermeulen [this message]
2023-07-07  9:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-08 22:24   ` Dan Drake

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