Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Extra brackets in Planner-Muse

[Jim Ottaway]

>>>>> Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:

> Did a patch ever result from the following discussion?
> Jim Ottaway <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>>> Sacha Chua <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Jim Ottaway <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> I tried to make something like that work for the multi links, and
>>>> it wasn't satisfactory at all. Perhaps it is best not to try to
>>>> make implicit, or perhaps semi-implicit, links work in multi links
>>>> after all.
>> 
>>> Hmm. That could work. Multi-links tend to be programmatically
>>> generated anyway. If planner-multi-read-name accepts a list of
>>> implicit links and returns a list of explicit links, then things
>>> should Just Work, and we can simplify the planner-multi test to just
>>> check for the explicit link regexp.
>> 
>>> Hey, you know, that would actually be simpler and safer...
>> 
>> Yes, as I discovered, trying to keep the original type of each link
>> gets complicated.  And it's probably pointless as well: there is no
>> real benefit for the extra cost.

Not as far as I know.  Modulo my quixotic attempt to allow mixtures of
implicit and explicit links, there didn't seem to me to be enough
information to know where to look for a bug.

Regards,

-- 
Jim Ottaway