Re: Is it possible to create links to M-x occur results?

[Leo Alekseyev <dnquark@gmail.com>]

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Nice!  Short and sweet, and works great.  It should go on
orgmode.orgsomewhere in the cool hacks section.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> wrote:

> On 01.05.2013 18:41, Leo Alekseyev wrote:
>
>> Howdy Org-folks,
>>
>> Something that I've found myself wishing for time and time again is to
>> be able to follow the link to a file and immediately pop into a set of
>> M-x occur results given some search term for that file.  That way I
>> could link to an overview of a file's class/function definitions, or
>> config stanzas, or other useful things.  Given that we can create
>> links to arbitrary elisp, I am sure that this can be done in
>> principle, but if there's a quick recipe that someone has come up
>> with, I'd love to hear about it!
>>
>
> That seems like a fun exercise. so:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
>   (defun org-occur-open (uri)
>     "Visit the file specified by URI, and run `occur' on the fragment
>   \(anything after '#') in the uri."
>     (let ((list (split-string uri "#")))
>                (org-open-file (car list) t)
>                (occur (mapconcat 'identity (cdr list) "#"))))
>   (org-add-link-type "occur" 'org-occur-open)
> #+END_SRC
>
> and you can use a link like:
>
> occur:m/file.txt#regex
>
> rick
>

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