Not To Miss <not.to.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ideally, it would > > be great if in the normal stored org link, line number could be > > included in the link and would be ripped off from the text to search > > the linked file. > > > > I'm confused - what exactly are you asking for here? If you don't use > the line number for searching, why would you want to store it? > > Because I think sometimes the line number gives valuable information > in addition to the text. I meant to create a link like > [[file:foo.txt::123 whatever_text]], when users open the link, > org-mode searches "whatever_text"; if it doesn't find anything, jump > to the line 123. The idea behind that is that it is possible the line > is changed and is unsearchable but still remains in the same line > number.
I guess the main idea is that it is more likely for the text around the link to remain the same: the line number can change (e.g. if you add stuff at the beginning of the file), but the surrounding text will probably remain the same, so a context search is more likely to find you what you want. But you are right in that a line number can sometimes disambiguate things, e.g. the etags functionality in emacs works (worked? not sure if the implementation is still the same) by using a position to go to and then searching in ever-widening circles around that position in order to find the appropriate context. That way, identical contexts could be used (a necessity for etags) and still be distinguished from each other. > This, however, is probably an issue of built-in org-mode > design, beyond the scope of user customization. > Yup. Nick
