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[Orgmode] Links Lost and Export-Report
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Stefan Vollmar |
Subject: |
[Orgmode] Links Lost and Export-Report |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:42:11 +0200 |
Hello,
I currently have a "showstopper-class" problem with links. I am using Org-mode
release_7.01h-129-g3363a with Emacs 23.2.1. I have
(require 'org-install)
(require 'org-id)
in my .emacs file.
This works fine:
(1) org-link-to-org-use-id is t and when I do a C-c l (org-store-link), a "a
globally unique ID property" is generated for the current section - so far so
good.
(2) I then change to another org-file and insert the link with C-c C-l
(org-store-link), looking at the org source shows me that, indeed, the newly
generated ID ("id:3A50..." in that example) has been used.
(3) When I do a C-c C-o (org-open-at-point) on the new link, the target
org-file is opened at exactly the right place - nice!
(4) When I export the file as HTML, the link works exactly as expected: "<a
href="some-file.html#ID-3A50...">
Here is the problem: I have two computers with very similar setups (Emacs and
Org-mode: same versions; laptop and desktop) and synchronize org-files via a
subversion repository. If I do a subversion update (sync the org-files to that
computer) and then export to HTML on that computer, the previously working
links do not work any more: there is no "#ID-..." in the link, in fact, the
link is simply to the file that contains the link (not even the file I want to
link to). Maybe Org-mode was not able to find the "id"?
I notice that there is no file referenced in the automatically generated
"[[id:3A50...][My Link]]" link. How does Org-mode look for files that might
contain a specific id? The org manual says "[...] and one that is globally
unique and works even if the entry is moved from file to file" implying that
there is a strategy for looking for suitable candidates. I assume that Org-mode
will look in currently open buffers first, but even if I load the correct
target file, HTML export will not create the proper link. Perhaps a caching
problem (I use "global-auto-revert-mode")?
Maybe the above is a problem with my particular setup, but another and related
problem is this:
Org-mode silently ignoring link problems and misspelled macro names is
dangerous - it happened more than once in our case that HTML content went
online with broken links and "{{{my-misspelled-macro()}}}" snippets. How about
an (optional) report after generating more complex HTML contents: maybe it
could be another org-file with links to offending Org code (unresolved links,
unknown macro names) and an easy-to-parse summary line for batch jobs ("done in
5.6s, *** 2 errors found")? I am perfectly willing to help with this,
unfortunately, my elisp skills are fairly basic and I fear this requires some
intimate knowledge of the export process.
Many thanks in advance.
Warm regards,
Stefan
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Head of IT group
Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
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