Line breaks in long multi-cite links about jmax HOT 7 CLOSED

I think using visual-line-mode solves this issue, by visually wrapping the long lines.

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Sadly, visual-line-mode fails to wrap these lines, due to the fact that there is no whitespace in between bibkeys. Making visual-line work would require the same solution as initially described, i.e., allowing whitespace between bibkeys and scanning until the closing parens of an org-mode link.

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Hm, so it seems I can already insert whitespace between cite-keys if the cite command is wrapped in a link. This will work with visual-line-mode then. So if spaces already work, maybe you could just have the relevant regex match in multi-line mode to make hard-wrapped link lines work?

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I’ve initially had good results with these changes:
https://gist.github.com/eigengrau/696251cb79338ce81ec7

However, for some reason this only seems to work if there are just two lines. With three, only the first two links will work; with more, only the first link works. For the non-working links, org-ref-get-bibtex-key-under-cursor seems not to be called, and some function in org-mode reports no link found. Could this be an org-mode bug? The syntax spec says all characters except [ and ] are allowed inside the link.

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Seems to be an org-mode-bug: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/19919 :(

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I use (global-visual-line-mode 1) in my init file, and it wraps the lines just fine.

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I don’t usually use visual-line-mode. I tought it wouldn’t wrap because I expected the virtual line-break to occur at column 80, same as when filling a paragraph, but actually it only breaks on the edge of the window. That way it works, but I prefer hard breaks, especially when sharing content. This will also nicely break between full words, then.

The method in my gist should work for multi-line links once the org-mode bug is resolved. I’ve submitted this issue to the mailing list.

One thing that might need to be added to what I posted is dealing with multi-line links during export. I was looking into this, but I discovered that org-mode only calls the export handlers with the link :path, which is currently broken for multi-line links. I hope they can get that fixed though.

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