Ability to link to specific text within PDF

[justinmoon]

I want to make links like this:

[[~/genesis.pdf::5##And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light]]

This would open up genesis.pdf file, scroll to page 5, and highlight the selection And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light on that page.

This package can already do everything except the highlighting bit.

I'm an emacs-lisp newb, but I'm pretty motivated to figure out how to do this so I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks for listening.

[justinmoon]

I imagine it will work like the height parameter in the current org-pdfview-open() function.

But instead of scrolling down to a position, it will attempt to highlight whatever text is passed in.

Perhaps I can just use this height param if anyone can explain how to use it?

[markus1189]

@superquest Sounds useful! You would have to adapt the regex to match an optional text to highlight here: https://github.com/markus1189/org-pdfview/blob/master/org-pdfview.el#L48

Then you can extract it via match-string as is done for path, page, height.

The trickiest part is probably to make all of the old behavior work with the new one.