thomas <tho...@friendlyvillagers.com> 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) > Attorney & neutral arbitrator -- tech contracts & IP | Adjunct > professor, University of Houston Law Center > Author, Common Draft desk book of contract clauses & research notes > | LinkedIn: dctoedt | Calendar (redacted) > E: d...@toedt.com O: +1 (713) 364-6545 C: +1 (713) 516-8968 > > > > Houston, Texas (Central time zone) > > Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is not intended > to serve as assent to an agreement or other document, whether or not > attached to this message. > -- Nick
