Re: Exporter aborts upon encountering even one unresolvable link

["D. C. Toedt" <dc@toedt.com>]

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P.S.:   Thank heavens for Time Machine.




On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:50 PM, D. C. Toedt <dc@toedt.com> wrote:

> I just updated to 8.3.1 from 8.3beta (from git).  That appears to have
> been a terrible mistake on my part.
>
> From this thread
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2015-09/msg00040.html>
> I see that the exporter now throws an error and aborts when it encounters
> an unresolvable link.  That makes things really, REALLY difficult.  It
> means I can't get a complete, working export to HTML (in my case) until all
> link problems are fixed in my 22KLOC .org file (which I use to generate
> http://www.CommonDraft.org/index.html
> <http://www.commondraft.org/index.html>).  That seems EXTREMELY
> suboptimal. (I'm trying to be tactful here.)
>
> Worse, the exporter doesn't even generate a list of unresolvable links
> before aborting.  That means the only way that I can find and fix busted
> links (so far as I know) is to do an export --- which takes several minutes
> given the large file  --- and have the export abort on a single link.
> Then I fix that one link, export again, and have it abort again. Repeat.
> Aaaargggggg.
>
> I started looking at the hooks, as suggested in a message in the previous
> thread, but I'm not nearly skilled enough in elisp to be able to do
> anything useful.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
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