Also worth mentioning that revert-buffer is your go to "kill buffer and
reopen" command

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022, 08:51 Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Org scans the file for link definitions when you visit it, so when you
> type in the link definition in the buffer, Org is not automatically
> aware that it exists. To refresh setup without reloading the file, you
> can `C-c C-c' with point on the line with the definition. That should do
> it.
>
> Also, if you don't particularly need or like the behavior of querying
> for creating a new headline when none is found, you can turn it off by
> customizing org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline to nil (the default
> is
> 'query-to-create).
>
> Yours,
> Christian
>
> Perry Smith writes:
>
> > I'm new to Org mode.  I found this page
> > https://orgmode.org/manual/Link-Abbreviations.html about Link
> > Abbreviations but I wanted to report my confusion.
> >
> > I added:
> >
> > #+LINK: rails  https://rubyonrails.org
> >
> > to my org file and then I wrote [[rails][Rails]] and when I clicked
> > the text, it asked me if I wanted to create a section.  I had to kill
> > the buffer and reload it to get it to work.  That's fine but I'm
> > wondering if there is a way to make it active without killing the
> > buffer.  And I also wanted to suggest adding something about that in
> > the manual.
> >
> > Perhaps this is a common fact with many of Org modes features that I
> > missed somewhere?
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> > Perry
>
>