Re: implicit links

[Robert Weiner]

Please press {C-h A} with point over your fi explicit button and rhen copy the 
output to show us what it does.

The link-to-ebut problem could be a bug, we’ll have to see but also want to 
help you with the simplest way to do what you want and as Jean notes, that may 
be by using a builtin implicit button type.  We just need to know the actual 
effect you want to achieve in order to answer.

-- Bob

> On May 18, 2021, at 7:05 AM, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> 
> * Dr. Erich Ruff <dr.erich.ruff@t-online.de> [2021-05-18 11:06]:
>> I'm trying to learn to use hyperbole and I make very slow progress
>> because of the very terse documentation with only a minimum of
>> real-life examples.
>> 
>> Because of working most of my time in LaTeX, I don't use org-mode. So
>> it is a relief to have hyperlinks working in another context as org.
> 
> There is `org-link-minor-mode' that helps you have Org links in any
> kind of the mode. I think you need to install it from Melpa.
> 
> In the case of LaTeX I would use GNU Hyperbole
> 
>> Implicit buttons are created - as I understood - as:
>> 
>> <elink: explicit-button-label: path-to-remote-doc>
>> 
>> but referencing an ebut, labeled 'fi' in the same and not in an extern
>> *.tex.file results in this error:
>> 
>> -->   hypb:error: (link-to-ebut): No button ‘fi’ in ‘nil’
> 
> With Hyperbole V8, let us say you wish to have a link link:
> 
> <doc: NAME-OF-FILE>
> 
> Then you have to decide which function to handle the NAME-OF-FILE. The
> function can be stored in .emacs file
> 
> Then you would do following:
> 
> (defil any-name-of-function "<doc:" ">" ".*" 'my-function)
> 
> Let us say your function is to open file within Emacs:
> 
> (defun my-function (file)
>  (let ((file (string-trim file))) ;; I would string trim to avoid any spaces 
> around
>    (find-file file)))
> 
> Then the button like this is opening ~/tmp or any file there.
> 
> <doc: ~/tmp>
> 
> But to open a file Hyperbole already knows how to do it as this
> is already implicit link:
> 
> "~/tmp"
> 
> Which kind of files do you try to open?
> 
> Are those files to be opened with external viewer?
> 
> 
> Jean
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