From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Lawrence Subject: Re: Possible bug: Can not search for text in links - only description Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:59:07 -0700 Message-ID: <87mw3767gk.fsf@berkeley.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYyP1-0002B4-2i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:59:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYyOw-0003N5-04 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:59:59 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYyOv-0003My-Pd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:59:53 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YYyOs-0000CN-A5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:59:50 +0100 Received: from c-67-169-117-151.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.169.117.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:59:50 +0100 Received: from richard.lawrence by c-67-169-117-151.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:59:50 +0100 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 Cc: Rainer M Krug Hi Rainer, Rainer M Krug writes: > I figured out that I can not search for text in the link. > > Thins is quite annoying, especially as I even thought of opening the > file in another texteditor, search for the string, and save it again. > > As an example: if this link is in an org-mode file, A search for "exa" > does not return any results. > > [[*Examples][Link to exp]] > > Is this a problem on my side? No, I confirm that that's how it works for me, too. I am not sure if this counts as a bug or not, so someone else should still address this question. Maybe this is the desired behavior, given that the link text is hidden? Or maybe it's just not possible to search in hidden text? There's a less-drastic solution than switching to another editor though! You can just turn off Org mode...try M-x fundamental-mode, then run the search. Best, Richard