I should have mentioned that I'm not exporting any of this. I only use org
by itself; I never export things to other formats. So the link behavior
that I need is for making and following links inside org/emacs; noweb and
other things aren't important.

The (ahem) link to the org-coderef-label-format is what I was looking for:
I set that to just (%s) and now something like the above example works
without adding the "ref:" bit. I'll update the emacs.sx post.

Thanks!



On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 4:48 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> Dan Drake <dan.drake@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello -- I'm wondering about my question from here:
> >
> >
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/77768/why-the-inconsistency-with-org-mode-code-line-labels-and-links
> >
> > Copying my question: in a source code special block, I can add code line
> > labels, which have ref: in the label -- but when I make a link there, I
> > have to omit the ref:. For example:
> > ...
> > 1047     bar = 5; //  (ref:my-code-line-label)
> > ...
> > There's a bug [[(my-code-line-label)][right here]].
> >
> > This seems inconsistent. Why do I have to omit the ref: bit? This always
> > confuses me; it seems like it would be simpler to just make the label and
> > the links to that line of code be exactly the same. I don't see any
> > particular reference to this in the org manual (
> > https://orgmode.org/manual/Internal-Links.html). Any insights?
>
> The way coderefs appear in the code are completely configurable using
> org-coderef-label-format ("(ref:%s)" by default) and using -l src code
> switch.
>
> > My idea would be to get rid of the special behavior for code line labels
> > and just make this work with dedicated targets: in regular parts of my
> org
> > file, I use <<link-target>> and can make links to that. It would be
> simple
> > and consistent to make that also work the same when <<link-target>> is
> > inside a code block.
>
> If you examine 12.6 Literal Examples section of Org manual, you will see
> that coderef links are exported specially:
>
>        In literal examples, Org interprets strings like ‘(ref:name)’ as
>     labels, and use them as targets for special hyperlinks like
>     ‘[[(name)]]’—i.e., the reference name enclosed in single parenthesis.
>     In HTML, hovering the mouse over such a link remote-highlights the
>     corresponding code line, which is kind of cool.
>
> --
> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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