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[O] bug#20090: improperly closed
From: |
Nicolas Goaziou |
Subject: |
[O] bug#20090: improperly closed |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 22:21:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Boruch Baum <address@hidden> writes:
> Bug report 20090 was perfunctorily closed today:
> 1] without the person who performed the action consulting with the bug
> reporter;
You're free to re-open the bug or create another one if you disagree.
For the record, I don't consider this to be a bug, but a feature
request.
> 2] without any discussion for over 2.5 years;
I hope you are not blaming me for that.
> 3] with a reason given that demonstrates that the person who performed
> the action didn't give the action much of any thought;
Yet, I gave it more thought than anyone in 2.5 years!
> In this particular case, the person who closed the bug apparently looked
> at the sentence fragment 'does not work for positions within an info node (eg.
> line 85 of node x)', and confused the term `eg' with the term 'ie'.
How nice.
> At this point, emacs is uniquely inferior to all major 'word processors'
> in that it does not support the feature described in the bug, ie. the
> ability to link to a specific position within a document.
>
> Pretty basic, no?
Pretty inaccurate, actually. Org is able to link to a specific position
within an Org document, and to a specific line in any plain text
document.
Your feature request is to link to a specific position in a document
written in a foreign, processed format, namely Info. I cannot think of
any reliable way to do so (e.g., "going to the node, and searching for
a string" doesn't qualify as "reliable"). If you have an idea about it,
I suggest to first implement it as a custom link type, and open a proper
feature request, or report it on the Org mailing list.
Another option is to wait for 2.5 years again and despise the next
person to close this report.
Regards,