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* greedy substitution in org-open-file
@ 2021-01-20 16:08 Maxim Nikulin
  2021-02-12  7:16 ` Kyle Meyer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Maxim Nikulin @ 2021-01-20 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Looking into the code related to 'pty problem with 
start-process-shell-command, I have realized that the following case is 
not handled correctly:

#+begin_src elisp
   (setq org-file-apps '(("\\.pdf::\\([0-9]+\\)\\'" . "xpdf %s %1")))
#+end_src

I hope, I adapted an example from [[help:org-file-apps]] correctly. When 
I try to open the following link using C-c C-o

[[file:test-%1f.pdf::42]]

I get

Running xpdf /home/ubuntu/examples/org/test-\42f.pdf 42...done

I believe, it should be

Running xpdf /home/ubuntu/examples/org/test-%1f.pdf 42...done

Or

Running xpdf /home/ubuntu/examples/org/test-\%1f.pdf 42...done

Org mode version 9.4.4 (release_9.4.4-164-g7a9a8a

The source of the problem is that %s substitution is expanded at first 
and regexp groups are replaced later. Ideally, it should be performed in 
a single pass. I have found format-spec function but I am unsure 
concerning it, maybe it is avoided intentionally.



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2021-01-20 16:08 greedy substitution in org-open-file Maxim Nikulin
2021-02-12  7:16 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-12 16:46   ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-02-13  4:38     ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-15 17:04       ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-03-03 12:47       ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-03-21 12:36       ` Maxim Nikulin
2022-08-27 17:20         ` [PATCH] org.el: Fix percent substitutions in `org-open-file' Max Nikulin
2022-09-02 12:08           ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-02 15:41             ` Max Nikulin
2022-09-03  8:26               ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-04 12:16                 ` [PATCH v2] " Max Nikulin
2022-09-05  5:46                   ` Ihor Radchenko

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