From: aditya siram <aditya.siram@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change org-back-to-heading to use org's heading regex
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:37:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJrReyhS5om+W1y4wP-zFPNe+Vo7ejoxn5Wjk7WvJ3XJ89-1uQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E0AD76DA-91E9-43CB-8791-0BC8CAD0B474@gmail.com>
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Yes, you're right. And while I was looking for an alternate solution I
found `org-heading-components` which does everything I need and more!
Thanks!
-deech
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Aditya,
>
> I do not support this idea.
>
> 1. sometimes Org functions are used in other modes, with a different value
> for the outline regexp. WHile this will not work for many Org functions,
> it is useful to have it work for some.
>
> 2. For just searching headings, it is efficient to use a regexp that is as
> simple as possible and does not need to do any back tracking.
>
> 3. You can easily use the simple regexps to find a heading. If you need
> detailed info, match again with looking-at and then use the match data.
>
> Regards
>
> - Carsten
>
> On 14.9.2013, at 23:30, aditya siram <aditya.siram@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > Org-mode uses two regex's to find headings, one from outline.el and one
> defined internally and captures more information. I propose we stop using
> the one from outline.el.
> >
> > org-mode uses `org-back-to-heading` a lot to navigate point back to the
> nearest heading.
> >
> > This just delegates to `outline-back-to-heading` from the outline.el
> package, which uses a regex for finding headlines: "[*\^L]+"
> >
> > Org also defines another heading regex which is more capable and
> captures more information: "^\\(\\*+\\)\\(?: +\\(.*?\\)\\)?[ \t]*$".
> >
> > I would propose changing org-back-to-heading to use that so that a user
> (like me :) ) can use `match-string` to grab the relevant parts of the
> string.
> >
> > Since this is a pretty simple, but sweeping change, I thought I'd bring
> it up here first before patching.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -deech
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-14 21:30 Change org-back-to-heading to use org's heading regex aditya siram
2013-09-14 22:21 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-17 22:37 ` aditya siram [this message]
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