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Re: [O] Exporter aborts upon encountering even one unresolvable link
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Nick Dokos |
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Re: [O] Exporter aborts upon encountering even one unresolvable link |
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Mon, 28 Sep 2015 07:21:17 -0400 |
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thomas <address@hidden> writes:
> just my 2 cents: I think the new error message is very nice and helpful,
> UNLESS you work on a bigger document, narrow your buffer and try to export
> the narrowed portion of the
> document.
> This does not work anymore.
>
> I can agree with D. C. Toedt that it would be nice to have an easy way to
> customize this behaviour of the exporter.
>
See the thread with title "[RFC] Draft mode":
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/101542
> - thomas
>
> On 25.09.2015 04:50, D. C. Toedt wrote:
>
> I just updated to 8.3.1 from 8.3beta (from git). That appears to have
> been a terrible mistake on my part.
>
> From this thread I see that the exporter now throws an error and aborts
> when it encounters an unresolvable link. That makes things really, REALLY
> difficult. It means I can't get
> a complete, working export to HTML (in my case) until all link problems
> are fixed in my 22KLOC .org file (which I use to generate
> http://www.CommonDraft.org/index.html). That
> seems EXTREMELY suboptimal. (I'm trying to be tactful here.)
>
> Worse, the exporter doesn't even generate a list of unresolvable links
> before aborting. That means the only way that I can find and fix busted
> links (so far as I know) is to do an
> export --- which takes several minutes given the large file --- and have
> the export abort on a single link. Then I fix that one link, export again,
> and have it abort again.
> Repeat. Aaaargggggg.
>
> I started looking at the hooks, as suggested in a message in the previous
> thread, but I'm not nearly skilled enough in elisp to be able to do anything
> useful.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> D. C. Toedt III (My last name is pronounced "Tate"; I go by "D. C.,"
> which stands for Dell Charles)
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Nick