Re: [Orgmode] Org-mode version 6.30; Links in categories break layout

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:12 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:50 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
> > > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Hi Peter,
> > > >
> > > > links in categories are not supported......
> > >
> > > The thing is, they ever so nearly *are* supported: they are
> > > fontified as links, and they work if you click on them or type C-c
> > > o. The only thing that isn't quite right is this small cosmetic
> > >   matter of the missing spaces.
> > >
> > > Having a link as a category is very useful, because categories have
> > > meaning and the link can take you to it. Most of mine are links to
> > > bug reports or feature requests, for instance.
> >
> > But TAB on the entry will get you there as well, right?
>
> TAB in the agenda takes me to the entry, TAB in the entry opens it up,
> and all of those things work properly. Click, ENTER, or C-c o in the
> category column of the agenda will follow the link if the category  
> text
> contains one. All of that works properly too.
>
> To clarify, my second paragraph there was just saying how useful links
> are in categories. It isn't part of the bug report. That's just about
> missing spaces.
>
> You said that links aren't supported in categories, but for a feature
> that isn't supported, they work very well! In what sense are they not
> supported?

They are not supported in the sense that I never have tried to make
them work as links.  It is pure "accident" that they are activated
as links, because there is a function running through to activate
links that are in headlines, and by accident the regexp search
matches in the prefix as well.

They are not supported in the way that I guarantee them to continue to
work in future versions.

Unless this thread convinces me otherwise, of course.  I can now
see that they can be useful as a connection to an anchestor of the  
entry....

- Carsten


> I use categories like this:
>
> ,----
> | * PROJECT Implement BUG-1234, allow users to upload files
> |   :PROPERTIES:
> |   :CATEGORY: [[http://example.com/bugtracker/1234][BUG-1234]]
> |   :ORDERED: t
> |   :END:
> | ** DONE Design uploader UI
> | ** TODO Implement authentication
> | ** TODO Write a form for directory navigation
> | ...etc...
> `----
>
> Then the global TODO list (C-c a t) shows this as:
>
> ,----
> | BUG-1234:TODO Implement authentication
> `----
>
> Where "BUG-1234" is a link that takes me to the bug tracker URL.  
> Except
> that the layout is a bit wrong:
>
> ,----
> | plaintext:  TODO Item with a plain text category
> | BUG-1234:TODO Implement authentication
> | plaintext:  TODO Item with a plain text category
> `----
>
> There should be some spaces after the colon on the second line,
> "BUG-1234:   TODO", so it lines up with the other entries.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter.
>
> > - Carsten
> >
> > > Peter.
> > >
> > > > - Carsten
> > > >
> > > > On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen
> > > > > and what in fact did happen.  You don't know hoe to make a good
> > > > > report? See
> > > > >
> > > > >   http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback
> > > > >
> > > > > Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list.
> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > ------
> > > > >
> > > > > Here's a plain-text view of my agenda that shows the problem:
> > > > >
> > > > > meta:       TODO Report invisible scheduled items
> > > > > [[foo][test]]:TODO Get layout right when category is a link
> > > > >
> > > > > Because the link is displayed as "test" in the link face, it
> > > > > is only four characters long, so it should have seven spaces
> > > > > after it.
> > > > >
> > > > > (Aside: I wondered if this might be simple enough for me to fix it
> > > > > myself. Turns out not :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter.
> > > > >
> > > > > Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> > > > > 2.12.12)of 2009-07-30 on elegiac, modified by Debian Package: Org-
> > > > >        mode version 6.30
> > > > >
> > > > >
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