Re: [O] Possible bug: Can not search for text in links - only description

[Charles C. Berry]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2015, Ken Mankoff wrote:

> It would be nice to be able to search in links without extra work to 
> change modes. Without this, you cannot even search for a cite key!

You *can* search in links without changing modes.

<menu-bar> <edit> <search> <search-forward> Exa RET

runs nonincremental-search-forward on "Exa" and  finds Rainier's 
`*Example' if point preceeds it.

M-x occur RET Exa RET

finds the link, too.

Chuck

>  -k.
>
> Please excuse brevity. Sent from pocket computer with tiny non-haptic feedback 
> keyboard.
>
> > On Mar 20, 2015, at 11:38, Jacob Gerlach <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I got an error as follow when I tried to export:
> > >
> > > ,----
> > > | org-babel-exp process R at line 5495...
> > > | Evaluation of this R code-block is disabled.
> > > | user-error: Unable to resolve link "*uLELFit"
> > > `----
> > >
> > > I thought "OK - I'll search for uLELFit and just fix this link - but I
> > > could do what I wanted, I did not manage to find the link.
> > >
> > > I figured out that I can not search for text in the link.
> >
> > `org-toggle-link-display' is very helpful here. See [1] for a
> > discussion of the patch and new behavior.
> >
> > It is perhaps worth considering to change the error message to show
> > the link description (when it exists) rather than the link itself to
> > make it easier to find the bad link.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jake
> >
> > [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/90891

Charles C. Berry                 Dept of Family Medicine & Public Health
cberry at ucsd edu               UC San Diego / La Jolla, CA 92093-0901
http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/