Hi Erich:
You understand things well. You are doing things right. It must be a bug.
We’ll work on it. Thanks for the report.
-- Bob
> On May 18, 2021, at 9:26 AM, Dr. Erich Ruff <dr.erich.r...@t-online.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Bob,
>
> thank you for your immediate answer.
>
> I wanted to activate with the 'implicit-link' <elink: fi> the explicit
> button <(fi)> in the same document. Or did I not understand the manual?
>
>
> Here the info:
>
>
> the 'explicit button' is named: <(fi)> at line 850 of my file
>
> here the output of {C-h A}
>
> -------------------- begin --------------------
>
> A press of the Action Key
> WHEN (hbut:at-p)
> CALLS (hui:hbut-act) WHICH WILL:
>
> Execute action for optional Hyperbole button symbol BUT in current buffer.
> The default is the current button.
>
> link-to-regexp-match BUTTON SPECIFICS:
>
> Find REGEXP’s Nth occurrence in SOURCE and display location at window top.
> SOURCE is a pathname unless optional BUFFER-P is non-nil, then SOURCE must be
> a buffer name or buffer.
> Return t if found, signal an error if not.
> lbl-key: "fi"
> loc: "/home/er/git/wlnm/zur-wlnm.tex"
> categ: explicit
> actype: link-to-regexp-match
> args: ("Thathandlung" 1 "/mnt/fichte/sw-01.txt")
> creator: "dr.erich.r...@t-online.de"
> create-time: "May 18 09:30:40 CEST 2021"
> -------------------- end -----------------------
>
>
>
>
>
> the 'implicit-button' on line 1:
>
> <elink: fi: /home/er/git/wlnm/zur-wlnm.tex>
>
> works with fullpath
>
> ------------------ begin fi-fullpath ---------------
> A press of the Action Key
> WHEN (hbut:at-p)
> CALLS (hui:hbut-act) WHICH WILL:
>
> Execute action for optional Hyperbole button symbol BUT in current buffer.
> The default is the current button.
>
> elink BUTTON SPECIFICS:
>
> At point, activate a link to an explicit button.
> This executes the linked to explicit button’s action in the
> context of the current buffer.
>
> Recognizes the format ’<elink:’ button_label [’:’ button_file_path] ’>’,
> where : button_file_path is given only when the link is to another file,
> e.g. <elink: project-list: ~/projs>.
> lbl-key: "elink_fi"
> lbl-start: 3
> lbl-end: 46
> categ: ibtypes::elink
> loc: "/home/er/git/wlnm/zur-wlnm.tex"
> actype: link-to-ebut
> args: ("fi" "/home/er/git/wlnm/zur-wlnm.tex")
>
> ------------------ end fi-fullpath ---------------
>
>
>
> the 'implicit-button' on line 3
> <elink: fi:> or <elink: fi> does not work
>
> ------------------ begin fi-no path --------------
>
> A press of the Action Key
> WHEN (hbut:at-p)
> CALLS (hui:hbut-act) WHICH WILL:
>
> Execute action for optional Hyperbole button symbol BUT in current buffer.
> The default is the current button.
>
> elink BUTTON SPECIFICS:
>
> At point, activate a link to an explicit button.
> This executes the linked to explicit button’s action in the
> context of the current buffer.
>
> Recognizes the format ’<elink:’ button_label [’:’ button_file_path] ’>’,
> where : button_file_path is given only when the link is to another file,
> e.g. <elink: project-list: ~/projs>.
> lbl-key: "elink_fi"
> lbl-start: 49
> lbl-end: 61
> categ: ibtypes::elink
> loc: "/home/er/git/wlnm/zur-wlnm.tex"
> actype: link-to-ebut
> args: ("fi" nil)
>
> -------------------- end -----------------------
>
>
>> On Di 18 Mai 2021 at 14:59, Robert Weiner <rsw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Please press {C-h A} with point over your fi explicit button and rhen copy
>> the output to show us what it does.
>>
>> The link-to-ebut problem could be a bug, we’ll have to see but also want to
>> help you with the simplest way to do what you want and as Jean notes, that
>> may be by using a builtin implicit button type. We just need to know the
>> actual effect you want to achieve in order to answer.
>>
>> -- Bob
>>
>>>> On May 18, 2021, at 7:05 AM, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>>>
>>> * Dr. Erich Ruff <dr.erich.r...@t-online.de> [2021-05-18 11:06]:
>>>> I'm trying to learn to use hyperbole and I make very slow progress
>>>> because of the very terse documentation with only a minimum of
>>>> real-life examples.
>>>>
>>>> Because of working most of my time in LaTeX, I don't use org-mode. So
>>>> it is a relief to have hyperlinks working in another context as org.
>>>
>>> There is `org-link-minor-mode' that helps you have Org links in any
>>> kind of the mode. I think you need to install it from Melpa.
>>>
>>> In the case of LaTeX I would use GNU Hyperbole
>>>
>>>> Implicit buttons are created - as I understood - as:
>>>>
>>>> <elink: explicit-button-label: path-to-remote-doc>
>>>>
>>>> but referencing an ebut, labeled 'fi' in the same and not in an extern
>>>> *.tex.file results in this error:
>>>>
>>>> --> hypb:error: (link-to-ebut): No button ‘fi’ in ‘nil’
>>>
>>> With Hyperbole V8, let us say you wish to have a link link:
>>>
>>> <doc: NAME-OF-FILE>
>>>
>>> Then you have to decide which function to handle the NAME-OF-FILE. The
>>> function can be stored in .emacs file
>>>
>>> Then you would do following:
>>>
>>> (defil any-name-of-function "<doc:" ">" ".*" 'my-function)
>>>
>>> Let us say your function is to open file within Emacs:
>>>
>>> (defun my-function (file)
>>> (let ((file (string-trim file))) ;; I would string trim to avoid any spaces
>>> around
>>> (find-file file)))
>>>
>>> Then the button like this is opening ~/tmp or any file there.
>>>
>>> <doc: ~/tmp>
>>>
>>> But to open a file Hyperbole already knows how to do it as this
>>> is already implicit link:
>>>
>>> "~/tmp"
>>>
>>> Which kind of files do you try to open?
>>>
>>> Are those files to be opened with external viewer?
>>>
>>>
>>> Jean
>>>
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>
>
> --
> mit freundlichen Grüßen
> E. Ruff
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