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Feature: Consisent zk-link-format #63

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@boyechko boyechko commented Jul 9, 2023

This changes zk-link-format to use same %-sequences as other zk-*-format variables.
Having consistent syntax is helpful to avoid mistakes. Additionally, this change allows 1) simplifying zk--format so it doesn't need to handle two different sets of %-sequences, and 2) experimenting with other link markup, such as [[%i][%t]] for org-mode links without explicit link type or [[%i|%t]] for syntax used by MediaWiki.

Also, zk-link-regexp function now accepts optional ID and/or title to generate a regexp matching specific links, so that with the default zk-link-format, (zk-link-regexp "202307090142") returns "\\[\\[\\(?1:202307090142\\)]]". The explicitly numbered capture groups are consistent with zk-file-name-regexp.

* `zk-format-function`'s docstring pointed to a very sparse `zk--format`
  docstring.

* Other `*-format` variables had wrong information (`zk-format-function` should
  never be nil) and repeated information that pertains properly only to
  `zk-format-id-and-title`.
It's generally a good practice to avoid hardcoded values, but this also allows
the user to customize what the title looks like.
Since `zk--grep-file-list` expects a regexp anyway, might as well use the
`zk-link-regexp` to generate it rather than doing it locally and repeating code.
This increases consistency, which should help to avoid obscure bugs.
Having consistent syntax is helpful to avoid mistakes. Additionally, this change
allows 1) simplifying `zk--format` so it doesn't need to handle two different
sets of %-sequences, and 2) experimenting with other link markup, such as
`[[%i][%t]]` for org-mode links without explicit link type or `[[%i|%t]]` for
syntax used by MediaWiki.
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Introduces a small potential breaking change, for those who customize zk-link-format. But otherwise, seems alright. Thanks

@localauthor localauthor merged commit 79e1dba into localauthor:main Jul 9, 2023
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Hey, turns out this breaks zk-backlinks. Could you look into a fix?

boyechko added a commit to boyechko/octavo that referenced this pull request Jul 15, 2023
So far, functions like `zk--grep-file-list` have just passed Elisp-style regexp
to `grep` and hoped it works, which it does for zk-ID or other literal strings.
Changes to `zk-link-regexp` in PR localauthor#63 broke things because it introduced
explicit capture groups (`\(?1:...\)`), which is not supported by POSIX regexps
that `grep` uses.

The new function, `zk--posix-regexp`, does some basic conversion from
Elisp-style regexps to POSIX-style. There is package `pcre2el` that does it in a
more complete and sophisticated way, but for our purposes, this should be
enough.

Functions that pass regexps to `grep`, such as `zk--grep-file-list`,
`zk--grep-tag-list`, and `zk--grep-link-id-list` are updated to
sanitize ("POSIXize") the regexps they pass. The cost is minuscule ("Elapsed
time: 0.000379s" for 10,000 calls with a complex regexp).
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Hey, turns out this breaks zk-backlinks. Could you look into a fix?

Good catch. Fixed.

boyechko added a commit to boyechko/octavo that referenced this pull request Jul 15, 2023
So far, functions like `zk--grep-file-list` have just passed Elisp-style regexp
to `grep` and hoped it works, which it does for zk-ID or other literal strings.
Changes to `zk-link-regexp` in PR localauthor#63 broke things because it introduced
explicit capture groups (`\(?1:...\)`), which is not supported by POSIX regexps
that `grep` uses.

The new function, `zk--posix-regexp`, does some basic conversion from
Elisp-style regexps to POSIX-style. There is package `pcre2el` that does it in a
more complete and sophisticated way, but for our purposes, this should be
enough.

Functions that pass regexps to `grep`, such as `zk--grep-file-list`,
`zk--grep-tag-list`, and `zk--grep-link-id-list` are updated to
sanitize ("POSIXize") the regexps they pass. The cost is minuscule ("Elapsed
time: 0.000379s" for 10,000 calls with a complex regexp).
boyechko added a commit to boyechko/octavo that referenced this pull request Jul 15, 2023
So far, functions like `zk--grep-file-list` have just passed Elisp-style regexp
to `grep` and hoped it works, which it does for zk-ID or other literal strings.
Changes to `zk-link-regexp` in PR localauthor#63 broke things because it introduced
explicit capture groups (`\(?1:...\)`), which is not supported by POSIX regexps
that `grep` uses.

The new function, `zk--posix-regexp`, does some basic conversion from
Elisp-style regexps to POSIX-style. There is package `pcre2el` that does it in a
more complete and sophisticated way, but for our purposes, this should be
enough.

Functions that pass regexps to `grep`, such as `zk--grep-file-list`,
`zk--grep-tag-list`, and `zk--grep-link-id-list` are updated to
sanitize ("POSIXize") the regexps they pass. The cost is minuscule ("Elapsed
time: 0.000379s" for 10,000 calls with a complex regexp).
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