From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: Scott Otterson <scotto@u.washington.edu>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug in org-store-link
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:20:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11120.1204129231@alphaville.zko.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> of "Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:55:33 +0100." <C0E24317-4DD1-4729-9E66-78D69FACF1F0@science.uva.nl>
Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
> Hi Scott, this is not a small bug, but a problem that is really hard
> to solve.
> Supposed I used the exact line text to search, then you still have two
> lines in the buffer
> that would match.
>
> This is really about what strategy should be used to find a location
> in a file that has possibly changed.
> I have no good answer to that. Do you?
>
Two suggestions:
o Use a line number, instead of a search pattern and don't worry
about subsequent edits to the file that the link points to.
o Use the find-tag strategy: go to the line number as an initial
approximation. If the pattern is found there, done; if not, search
around that point for the pattern and keep expanding the area of the
search until found. I don't know if they still do it that way but I
think that's how it was done some time ago.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-27 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-26 20:40 bug in org-store-link Scott Otterson
2008-02-27 14:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-02-27 16:20 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2008-02-27 20:28 ` Scott Otterson
2008-02-27 20:57 ` Phil Jackson
2008-02-27 23:05 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-02-27 19:05 ` Scott Otterson
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