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[Francis J. Monari, Esquire]

To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: searching for links [8.3.3 (8.3.3-17-gce80a0-elpaplus @
c:/USR/FJM/APP/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20160118/)]
From: monarifjmk@verizon.net (F. J. Monari)
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Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and
what in fact did happen.  You don't know how 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.
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Due to file relocation on the server, I have a number of broken links in
an org document.  (problem: broken links.)

How can I / Is it possible to search and replace on links?
(expectation: I would like to use search and replace to fix the links.)

I have tried search and replace, but emacs advises me that links have
been filtered out.  (issue: emacs reports that results from the search
are filtered-out.)

The answer might be a "works as expected".  I would like to remain
within the org framework (but using standard search and replace) and
accomplish this task.

(I thought about forcing the files into a different mode, but I do not
want to risk the org file structure.)

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Package: Org-mode version 8.3.3 (8.3.3-17-gce80a0-elpaplus @
c:/USR/FJM/APP/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20160118/)

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Re: searching for links [8.3.3 (8.3.3-17-gce80a0-elpaplus @ c:/USR/FJM/APP/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20160118/)]

[Kyle Meyer]

Hello,

"Francis J. Monari, Esquire" <monarifj.esq@juno.com> writes:

[...]

> Due to file relocation on the server, I have a number of broken links in
> an org document.  (problem: broken links.)
>
> How can I / Is it possible to search and replace on links?
> (expectation: I would like to use search and replace to fix the links.)
>
> I have tried search and replace, but emacs advises me that links have
> been filtered out.  (issue: emacs reports that results from the search
> are filtered-out.)

isearch filters these out by default.  To avoid this, you can set
search-invisible to t, but then you don't see what you're replacing.

Another option is to toggle literal link display with
org-toggle-link-display, and then run the search and replace as usual.

> The answer might be a "works as expected".  I would like to remain
> within the org framework (but using standard search and replace) and
> accomplish this task.
>
> (I thought about forcing the files into a different mode, but I do not
> want to risk the org file structure.)

I don't really see any danger in that because it's just plain text and
it's querying you about what to replace, so I think that's fine too for
a one-off search and replace.

--
Kyle

Re: searching for links [8.3.3 (8.3.3-17-gce80a0-elpaplus @ c:/USR/FJM/APP/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20160118/)]

[Francis J. Monari, Esquire]

Kyle,

Thank you.

I also noted that reveal-mode works as well.

I am thinking that maybe I want to write a sentence or two for the manual.

Thank you again.

Frank.


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On 1/28/2016 5:45 PM, Kyle Meyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> "Francis J. Monari, Esquire" <monarifj.esq@juno.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Due to file relocation on the server, I have a number of broken links in
>> an org document.  (problem: broken links.)
>>
>> How can I / Is it possible to search and replace on links?
>> (expectation: I would like to use search and replace to fix the links.)
>>
>> I have tried search and replace, but emacs advises me that links have
>> been filtered out.  (issue: emacs reports that results from the search
>> are filtered-out.)
> 
> isearch filters these out by default.  To avoid this, you can set
> search-invisible to t, but then you don't see what you're replacing.
> 
> Another option is to toggle literal link display with
> org-toggle-link-display, and then run the search and replace as usual.
> 
>> The answer might be a "works as expected".  I would like to remain
>> within the org framework (but using standard search and replace) and
>> accomplish this task.
>>
>> (I thought about forcing the files into a different mode, but I do not
>> want to risk the org file structure.)
> 
> I don't really see any danger in that because it's just plain text and
> it's querying you about what to replace, so I think that's fine too for
> a one-off search and replace.
> 
> --
> Kyle
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> 
> 

Re: searching for links [8.3.3 (8.3.3-17-gce80a0-elpaplus @ c:/USR/FJM/APP/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20160118/)]

[Nick Dokos]

"Francis J. Monari, Esquire" <monarifj.esq@juno.com> writes:

> Due to file relocation on the server, I have a number of broken links in
> an org document.  (problem: broken links.)
>
> How can I / Is it possible to search and replace on links?
> (expectation: I would like to use search and replace to fix the links.)
>
> I have tried search and replace, but emacs advises me that links have
> been filtered out.  (issue: emacs reports that results from the search
> are filtered-out.)
>
> The answer might be a "works as expected".  I would like to remain
> within the org framework (but using standard search and replace) and
> accomplish this task.
>

Nevertheless, one-time global changes, like this, are best handled by
using tools other than an interactive editor. One of the strengths of
org-mode is that org files are plain-text and can therefore be
manipulated by many tools: I would suggest a simple sed script (sed is
available even on Windows through cygwin I think) - something like this

 sed 's/old/new/g' infile > outfile

It is even more advantageous if you have more than one file to change.
Emacs has mechanisms for doing something to many files, but none of them
beats a simple shell loop:

for x in file1 file2 file3 ;do
   sed 's/old/new/g' $x > $x.new
done

--
Nick