From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Harkins Subject: org-mobile-push vs. symlinks Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:49:16 +0800 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47247) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjnQt-0004iH-Ci for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:49:20 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjnQr-0004xr-H6 for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:49:19 -0500 Received: from mail-ie0-f169.google.com ([209.85.223.169]:51934) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TjnQr-0004xj-C6 for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:49:17 -0500 Received: by mail-ie0-f169.google.com with SMTP id c14so7245833ieb.0 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:49:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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 Sorry for resending as a new thread. I had wanted to reply to my original message on gmane, but gmane's search fails to locate the thread (?). Anyway, I still don't understand the rationale for the current behavior. Does anyone know why org-mobile-push resolves the agenda files' names to symlink targets? Thanks, hjh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:42 AM Subject: org-mobile-push vs. symlinks I had a problem with mobile org sync, which I finally tracked down to the handling of symlinks in org-mobile-push. Setup: I want to have a different file name for my school org file depending on fall or spring semester, but I hoped to avoid changing org-agenda-files once a semester. So I symlinked semester-fall.org to ~/Documents/mobileorg/semester.org. It seems that org-mobile-push resolves the symlink to determine the filename to drop into the online share. So MobileOrg knows about semester-fall.org, but there is no file by that name in org-directory. So, when I sync captures back to the computer, org-mobile-pull opens a buffer for semester-fall.org, but it's empty because there is no file by that name under org-directory -- so, of course the parent node can't be found. My question: Is there a technical reason why org-mobile-push must use the symlink target's filename, instead of the filename that actually lives under org-directory? Other parts of the code assume the filename under org-directory. I can think of two possibilities: - One should not put symlinks into org-directory, or at least make sure the symlink's name is the same as the target. If this is an intentional limitation, it should be documented. - Or, the symlink resolution is not actually necessary and it causes problems. In that case, it's a bug that should be fixed. Which is it? :-) hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks