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Re: [O] Possible bug: Can not search for text in links - only descriptio


From: Sebastien Vauban
Subject: Re: [O] Possible bug: Can not search for text in links - only description
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:20:34 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt)

Richard Lawrence wrote:
> Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I figured out that I can not search for text in the link.
>>
>> Thins is quite annoying, especially as I even thought of opening the
>> file in another texteditor, search for the string, and save it again.
>>
>> As an example: if this link is in an org-mode file, A search for "exa"
>> does not return any results.
>>
>> [[*Examples][Link to exp]]
>>
>> Is this a problem on my side?
>
> No, I confirm that that's how it works for me, too.  
>
> I am not sure if this counts as a bug or not, so someone else should
> still address this question.  Maybe this is the desired behavior, given
> that the link text is hidden?  Or maybe it's just not possible to search
> in hidden text?
>
> There's a less-drastic solution than switching to another editor though!
> You can just turn off Org mode...try M-x fundamental-mode, then run the
> search.

M-x visible-mode is your friend here.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban




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