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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ol: Avoid initial input when completing function for storing link
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 22:13:58 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im8fdm1n.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ51ETqO9A8mE0W3pgU2cFzaZsESdYXAV0X-8veY+_V9AwPHdQ@mail.gmail.com>

John Kitchin writes:

> Recently I have had an issue where multiple functions may store a link,
> e.g. to a bibtex entry.
>
> In this case, org-mode seems to prompt me to ask which function to store
> the link with, with an initial input of the first function, which masks all
> the options that are available. This happens inside org-store-link in ol.el
> at line 1495 for me. in
>
> (apply #'org-link-store-props
> (cdr (assoc-string
>       (completing-read
> "Which function for creating the link? "
> (mapcar #'car results-alist)
> nil t (symbol-name name))
>       results-alist)))
>
> because of the (symbol-name name).
>
> Is there an easy way to avoid this, or to modify the order of the functions
> used? I want to see all the options for storing, or better, to just store
> them all and let me choose later when I use org-insert-link.

The "or better" sounds reasonable.  Perhaps someone will attempt that,
but in the meantime I think just avoiding the discouraged/mostly
deprecated INITIAL-INPUT argument would be a good improvement.

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] ol: Avoid initial input when completing function for storing
 link

* lisp/ol.el (org-store-link): Use completing-read's DEF argument
rather than INITIAL-INPUT, which is discouraged (see Elisp manual) and
may hide the other choices depending on the completion framework.

Reported-by: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ref: https://orgmode.org/list/CAJ51ETqO9A8mE0W3pgU2cFzaZsESdYXAV0X-8veY+_V9AwPHdQ@mail.gmail.com
---
 lisp/ol.el | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/ol.el b/lisp/ol.el
index 5ba813142..cf105786f 100644
--- a/lisp/ol.el
+++ b/lisp/ol.el
@@ -1496,9 +1496,9 @@ (defun org-store-link (arg &optional interactive?)
 		  (apply #'org-link-store-props
 			 (cdr (assoc-string
 			       (completing-read
-				"Which function for creating the link? "
-				(mapcar #'car results-alist)
-				nil t (symbol-name name))
+                                (format "Store link with (default %s): " name)
+                                (mapcar #'car results-alist)
+                                nil t nil nil (symbol-name name))
 			       results-alist)))
 		  t))))
 	(setq link (plist-get org-store-link-plist :link))

base-commit: 291993888d7b6776d42a86facd26c8bc0f72e475
-- 
2.29.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-02 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-02 13:49 what do do when multiple functions store a link John Kitchin
2021-01-02 14:37 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-01-02 14:55   ` John Kitchin
2021-01-02 22:13 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2021-01-05  5:16   ` [PATCH] ol: Avoid initial input when completing function for storing link Kyle Meyer
2021-04-25  3:38     ` Timothy

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