Re: [O] Unable to get file link search to work

[Alexis]

Bump. Any suggestions as to whether the below is me doing something
wrong (more likely) or a bug (less likely)?

Thanks!


Alexis <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> i'm running org-mode 8.2.5h in Emacs 24.3.
>
> Say i have file a.org:
>
>   * Main
>   ** Group
>   *** Firstname Lastname
>
> My reading of
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/External-links.html#External-links
>
> and
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Search-options.html#Search-options
>
> is that i should be able to, in b.org - which resides in the same
> directory as a.org - have something like:
>
>   [[file+emacs:a.org::*Firstname]]
>
> such that when i move point over that link, and enter C-c C-o
> (i.e. org-open-at-point), i will be taken to a buffer containing a.org,
> with point on the 'Firstname Lastname' heading. Instead, what happens is
> that a new buffer is created, attached to a new file called, literally,
> 'a.org::*Firstname'.
>
> Similarly, if in b.org i have something like:
>
>   [[file+emacs:a.org::2]]
>
> i am not taken to line 2 of a.org, but instead to a new buffer attached
> to a new file literally called 'a.org::2'.
>
> i have observed this behaviour with
> org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline set to either 'query-to-create
> or to nil.
>
> What am i doing wrong?
>
>
> Alexis.