Patch by Jan Bker.
Jan writes:
> What is this?
> =============
>
> This patch changes the way extension regexps in `org-file-apps' are
> handled. Instead of against the file name, the regexps are now matched
> against the whole link, and you can use grouping to extract link
> parameters which you can then use in a command string to be executed.
>
> For example, to allow linking to PDF files using the syntax
> file:/doc.pdf::<page number>, you can add the following entry to
> org-file-apps:
>
> Extension: \.pdf::\([0-9]+\)\'
> Command: evince "%s" -p %1
>
> In a command string to be executed, the parameters can be referenced
> using %1, %2, etc. Lisp forms can access them using (string-match n link).
>
>
> Where to get it?
> ================
> Either apply the patch by hand or
>
> git pull git://github.com/jboecker/org-mode.git org-file-apps-parameters
>
>
> What's next? / Feedback
> =======================
>
> - Find the bugs. Since this messes with links, a central concept of Org,
> I probably have missed some edge cases; so please test this and
> report if it works for you.
>
> I also appreciate any feedback on code quality or the design decisions
> made. I am learning elisp along the way, so you may be able to write
> some changes in a more idiomatic and/or elegant way.
>
> - Add a mechanism for org-mode modules to add default values to
> org-file-apps, similar to the variables org-file-apps-defaults-*.
> This could be used by modules to define their own extensions to the
> syntax of file: links.
>
> - Modify org-docview.el to use this and deprecate the docview: link syntax.
>
>
> What does it (intentionally) break?
> ===================================
>
> This patch introduces a backwards-incompatible change. If LINE or SEARCH
> is given, the file is no longer guaranteed to open in emacs: if IN-EMACS
> is nil and an entry in org-file-apps matches, that takes precedence.
>
> A grep of the lisp/ and contrib/ directories showed that no code in the
> org-mode distribution was relying on this behaviour; whereever LINE or
> SEARCH is given, IN-EMACS is also set to t.
>
> I decided against adding an additional parameter because that would be
> redundant; the original link as seen by org-open-at-point can be
> reconstructed from PATH, LINE and SEARCH.
>
> I am not that sure if this is the right way to do this, but it seems to
> break as little as possible while hopefully avoiding to add too much
> complexity.
Dan Davison writes:
> Bug report
> ==========
> If I have this:
>
> A [[file:zz.org::#mytarget][link]] to a target with a custom ID
>
> and export it to HTML, I get
>
> A <a href="zz.html##mytarget">link</a> to a target with a custom ID
>
> which (in firefox on linux) links to the file but does not jump to the
> target. However, if I change the '##' to '#' then firefox jumps to the
> correct location. Is this an org bug?
>
> Very tentatively proposed patch
> ===============================
> I've investigated a bit (notes below), resulting in this proposed patch:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> diff --git a/lisp/org-html.el b/lisp/org-html.el
> index aa70408..5ee5b19 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-html.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-html.el
> @@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ lang=\"%s\" xml:lang=\"%s\">
> (abs-p (file-name-absolute-p filename))
> thefile file-is-image-p search)
> (save-match-data
> - (if (string-match "::\\(.*\\)" filename)
> + (if (string-match "::#?\\(.*\\)" filename)
> (setq search (match-string 1 filename)
> filename (replace-match "" t nil filename)))
> (setq valid
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Doc patch
> =========
> The link above (file:zz.org::#mytarget) was created by C-c l on a
> heading with a CUSTOM_ID property. However, I couldn't see where in the
> manual links of this form are documented. Do we need to add this link
> type to section 4.7 "Search options in file links", e.g.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
> index f49f056..c8cc1a5 100644
> --- a/doc/org.texi
> +++ b/doc/org.texi
> @@ -3116,6 +3116,7 @@ link, together with an explanation:
> [[file:~/code/main.c::255]]
> [[file:~/xx.org::My Target]]
> [[file:~/xx.org::*My Target]]
> +[[file:~/xx.org::#my-custom-id]]
> [[file:~/xx.org::/regexp/]]
> @end example
>
> @@ -3130,6 +3131,8 @@ link will become an HTML reference to the corresponding named anchor in
> the linked file.
> @item *My Target
> In an Org file, restrict search to headlines.
> +@item #my-custom-id
> +Link to a heading with a @code{CUSTOM_ID} property
> @item /regexp/
> Do a regular expression search for @code{regexp}. This uses the Emacs
> command @code{occur} to list all matches in a separate window. If the
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Notes
> =====
> At line 1134 of org-html.el there is
>
> (setq thefile (concat thefile "#"
> (org-solidify-link-text
> (org-link-unescape search)))))
>
> during evaluation of which 'search is bound to "#mytarget", which
> suggested that the problem might be in the regexp parsing creating
> 'search.
Patch by Dan Hackney.
Dan Hackney writes:
> For paragraph text, `org-adaptive-fill-function' did not handle the
> base case of regular text which needed to be filled. This commit saves
> a buffer-local value of `adaptive-fill-regexp' and uses it if none of
> the org-specific regexps match. This allows email-style ">" comments
> to be filled correctly.
org-agenda.el (org-agenda-include-deadlines): Added new
customization variable to determine whether unscheduled tasks
should appear in the agenda solely because of their deadline.
Default to true, which was the previous behavior (it just wasn't
configurable).
(org-agenda-mode-map, org-agenda-view-mode-dispatch): Bind ! in
the agenda to show/hide deadline tasks.
(org-agenda-menu): Added menu option for show/hide deadlines.
(org-agenda-list): Make the agenda list sensitive to the value of
`org-agenda-include-deadlines'.
(org-agenda-toggle-deadlines): New function to toggle the value of
`org-agenda-include-deadlines' and repaint the modeline
indicators.
(org-agenda-set-mode-name): Show "Deadlines" in the agenda
modeline if deadline tasks are being displayed.
Jambunathan K. writes:
> I would like to add the following observation as well -
>
> ---> org input <---
> #+AUTHOR: Jambunathan K\cr\href{mailto:{{{EMAIL}}}}{{{{EMAIL}}}}
>
> ---> actual tex output <---
> \author{Jambunathan K\cr\href{mailto:kjambunathan@gmail.com}\{kjambunathan@gmail.com\}}
>
> The above tex snippet has the effect of getting the "Url Box" wrong.
>
> I was hoping to produce the following line -
> \author{Jambunathan K\cr\href{mailto:kjambunathan@gmail.com}{kjambunathan@gmail.com}}
>
> Generally speaking, macro expansion in author string behaves strangely.
Eric Fraga writes:
> What am I missing? I tried exporting the following to HTML and the
> caption and HTML attributes seem to be ignored completely. Also, the
> alignment directives are ignored as well.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+TITLE: test file for org mode
> #+DESCRIPTION: used for bug reports
> #+AUTHOR: Eric S Fraga
> #+EMAIL: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
> #+DATE: 2010-03-11 Thu
> #+KEYWORDS:
> #+LANGUAGE: en
> #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
> #+OPTIONS: TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
> #+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0 path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
> #+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
> #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
> #+LINK_UP:
> #+LINK_HOME:
>
> * tables
>
> #+caption: A very interesting table
> #+attr_html: border="1" rules="all" frame="all" align="center"
> | <r> | <l> |
> | Id | Description |
> |-----+--------------------------------|
> | 1. | The first item |
> | 2. | the second |
> | 4. | we don't have a third one |
> | 10. | a longer id to check alignment |
> |-----+--------------------------------|
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I'm using org current as of yesterday Org-mode version 6.34trans
> (release_6.34c.186.g1902) and with GNU Emacs 23.1.1
> (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2) of 2009-11-02 on raven,
> modified by Debian
Tom writes:
> When archiving trees I'd like to see the archived items in
> reverse chronological order at the archive location, so if I jump
> to the header under which stuff is archived I would see the most
> recent item at the top.
>
> When searching for something in the archives it is much more
> frequent that I'm looking for something recently archived than
> something archived months ago, so the reserved order would make
> more sense to me.
>
> Is there a setting which tells the archiving command to insert
> the archived tree as first child of the archive location,
> instead of the last?
Patch by Matt Lundin
Matt writes:
> Below is a patch I've been using to speed up the construction of
> agenda views limited to certain types of entries (e.g., timestamps and
> sexps). Previously, I had constructed "calendar" views consisting
> only of timestamps and sexps by using the variable
> org-agenda-skip-function to exclude scheduled items and deadlines from
> the agenda. This, however, proved somewhat slow (3-4 seconds for
> weekly calendars, 10-12 seconds for monthly calendars). The patch
> below cuts the times to 1 and 3 seconds respectively. I believe it
> provides an efficient alternative to the skip function by allowing the
> user to tweak the arguments passed to org-agenda-get-day-entries.
Eric Schulte
Carsten Dominik
Dan Davison
John Wiegley