From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CUSTOM_ID vs ID
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 06:13:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r25u616y.fsf@alphapapa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAC=HedC+ChHz3PKNorY9ihmdHDZfj-sF+zQmd4sbAN4gitTbfA@mail.gmail.com
Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
> I have a lot of org files and one of the main purposes of links is to be able to link
> to different headings across documents. This seems to imply I should use
> the ID property.
>
> However, I usually *do* manually assign IDs (not CUSTOM_IDs) myself. The
> reason is so I can reasonably search for the ID within my org files and that the link
> ID makes some sense to me.
>
> For example, if I see a link to "id:keyboard_shortcuts" I can tell where it's going.
> Later on, if I want to insert a link to my keyboard shortcuts heading in another place
> in my org files, I can make a guess of the ID I want to link to.
>
> So, I guess I'm okay manually assigning ID properties, as long as I
> don't have conflicts.
FYI, you may find the package org-bookmark-heading useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-09 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-27 23:35 CUSTOM_ID vs ID Nathan Neff
2019-07-28 8:10 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-07-29 4:23 ` David Masterson
2019-07-29 6:38 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-08-02 4:54 ` David Masterson
2019-07-30 0:38 ` Nathan Neff
2019-08-01 7:55 ` Richard Lawrence
2019-08-09 11:13 ` Adam Porter [this message]
2019-08-02 14:53 ` Nathan Neff
2019-08-09 11:12 ` Adam Porter
2019-08-18 0:53 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2019-08-18 10:40 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-08-18 14:24 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2019-08-18 15:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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