Hello, Boruch Baum <boruch_b...@gmx.com> writes:
> On 03/12/2015 03:50 PM, Juri Linkov wrote: >>> When the org mode manual discusses creating links, it gives an example >>> of linking to an info node (the self-referencing example is >>> `info:org#External' links). The manual continues, at node >>> `info:org#Search options', to describe how specific positions within >>> file links can be directly specified. This does work for links to >>> regular files, but does not work for positions within an info node (eg. >>> line 85 of node x). >> >> Is there an official format for the line numbers in Info cross-references? > I don't know - my assumption was that within emacs, it would be > basically just another type of emacs buffer, and be a legitimate subject > for all elisp commands. > > Your question got me thinking, that emacs may have subtle rendering > quirks, so just now, I opened fresh instances of info buffers in both > very wide and very narrow windows, and they both `fill' to the same line > length, ie the wide window has a lot of right-side white-space, and the > narrow window has lines wrapped. > > Since I submitted the bug report, I've continued trying to get the > feature working, and have been experimenting with the org-mode hooks > `org-create-file-search-functions' and > `org-execute-file-search-functions' to no success. The only, supposedly > working examples I've come across for these functions are [1] and [2]. > If you know of other resources, that could be helpful. Info links are also meant to be exported. Linking to a line number doesn't sound portable. I don't think it should be supported out of the box. In any case, you can implement your own link types, if you need this specific feature. See `org-link-parameters' for details. > One other possible related bug I've found is that when trying to use > org-store-link for a particular line number within an org-file, the link > is created to the most recent header. One can successfully, manually, > hack the created link, replacing the reference to the header with a line > number, in order to be able to navigate directly to the desired line > (all this, for a link target in an org mode file - this was done as a > test, once I came across the original bug) [3]. Please open a new bug report if you think you found a bug. I'm closing this one. Thank you! Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou 0x80A93738