Hi all, First, I wanted to say thanks to Carsten and the community here for org-mode. I'm a graduate student in Chinese literature and after trying out many outliners and information management systems I've settled very happily on org-mode and found it to be amazingly useful and especially well-documented.
I wanted to post a snippet of code I've been using because I haven't read through the entire org-mode source, haven't ever written emacs extensions before, and would love to know if there is an easier or more idiomatic way of doing the following. I usually create a glossary with radio targets at the end of a project, allowing me to quickly see autolinks from any other text I might be working on. Sometimes I want to do the opposite: from a radio target or link, cycle through all the places in the text that are autolinked to the same target. The code below does a sparse tree and then, since I often have lots of occurences spread over more than a page, lets you cycle forward and back through the actual occurences. I would love if someone could let me know any defects or infelicities with my method. Thanks, Adam ;; keys: (org-defkey org-mode-map "\C-]" 'org-backlinks-cycle-forward) (org-defkey org-mode-map "\C-[" 'org-backlinks-cycle-backward) ;; org-backlinks.el: (defvar org-backlinks-regexp nil "Regexp to find most recent target called with org-backlinks-...") (make-variable-buffer-local 'org-backlinks-regexp) (defun org-backlinks-cycle-forward () "Cycle forward through links to the link at point" (interactive) (org-backlinks-cycle 're-search-forward (+ (point-min) 1))) (defun org-backlinks-cycle-backward () "Cycle backwards through links to the link at point" (interactive) (org-backlinks-cycle 're-search-backward (- (point-max) 1))) (defun org-backlinks-cycle (re-search backup) "Find links pointing to the radio target near point, or else the last radio target at which the command was called. Can be called repeatedly." (let ((new-regexp (org-make-target-link-regexp (ensure-list (org-find-link-path-at-point))))) (when (and new-regexp (not (string= new-regexp org-backlinks-regexp))) (setq org-backlinks-regexp new-regexp) (org-occur org-backlinks-regexp)) (when org-backlinks-regexp (unless (funcall re-search org-backlinks-regexp nil t) (goto-char backup) ; ugly, but so that we can -1 later (org-backlinks-cycle re-search backup))))) (defun org-find-link-path-at-point () "Returns string text of link at point, or nil" (text-at (org-find-link-at-point))) (defun org-find-link-at-point () "Returns positions bounding the beginning and end of link at point, else nil" (let ((pos (- (point) 1))) ; since search will leave us off just after the link (when (get-text-property pos 'org-linked-text) (cons (previous-single-property-change pos 'org-linked-text) (next-single-property-change pos 'org-linked-text))))) (defun org-find-target-name-near-point () "Returns the text name of the nearbye target, or nil if none" (text-at (org-find-target-near-point))) (defun org-find-target-near-point () "Returns markers bounding the beginning and end of nearby target, else nil" (or (org-in-regexp org-radio-target-regexp) (org-in-regexp org-target-regexp)) (cons (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))) ;; Utility functions I had defined elsewhere... (defun apply-cons (fn cons) "Apply a function to the two items in a cons cell" (apply fn (list (car cons) (cdr cons)))) (defun text-at (cons) "Returns the text between the two markers/positions in the provided cons, else nil" (and cons (apply-cons 'buffer-substring-no-properties cons))) (defun ensure-list (item) (if (listp item) item (list item))) _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode