Boruch Baum <boruch_b...@gmx.com> writes: > Bug report 20090 was perfunctorily closed today:
> 1] without the person who performed the action consulting with the bug > reporter; You're free to re-open the bug or create another one if you disagree. For the record, I don't consider this to be a bug, but a feature request. > 2] without any discussion for over 2.5 years; I hope you are not blaming me for that. > 3] with a reason given that demonstrates that the person who performed > the action didn't give the action much of any thought; Yet, I gave it more thought than anyone in 2.5 years! > In this particular case, the person who closed the bug apparently looked > at the sentence fragment 'does not work for positions within an info node (eg. > line 85 of node x)', and confused the term `eg' with the term 'ie'. How nice. > At this point, emacs is uniquely inferior to all major 'word processors' > in that it does not support the feature described in the bug, ie. the > ability to link to a specific position within a document. > > Pretty basic, no? Pretty inaccurate, actually. Org is able to link to a specific position within an Org document, and to a specific line in any plain text document. Your feature request is to link to a specific position in a document written in a foreign, processed format, namely Info. I cannot think of any reliable way to do so (e.g., "going to the node, and searching for a string" doesn't qualify as "reliable"). If you have an idea about it, I suggest to first implement it as a custom link type, and open a proper feature request, or report it on the Org mailing list. Another option is to wait for 2.5 years again and despise the next person to close this report. Regards,