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From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
To: arozbiz@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why are (UU)IDs limited to the headline level?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 01:14:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1mh940t.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJniy+OVD0NCWZZTPit5T7wvsbLbgLLXZmPub5tgq3gsHsGhYw@mail.gmail.com>

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arozbiz@gmail.com writes:

> I'm just getting into Emacs/Org-Mode. It's clearly an amazing system and
> the linking via UUID is very useful. My question is: why is linking by UUID
> (and, more generally, the creation of properties drawers) limited to
> headlines, and not to sub-elements like list elements or paragraphs?
> Doesn't all the necessary structural information exist to assign UUIDs to
> everything?
>
> The reason I'm asking is that getting into Org-Roam, the linking for which
> relies on Org UUIDs for headlines. If UUIDs were available for all elements
> of an Org file, that will allow for more granular linking behavior.

You can use <<some-anchor-name>> to make it possible to link to any
place in a document.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-18  2:17 Why are (UU)IDs limited to the headline level? arozbiz
2021-01-19  0:14 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2021-01-19  2:06   ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-01-19 16:10     ` arozbiz

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