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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-link-search: Augment signature?
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On Aug 19, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Jambunathan K wrote:

>
> I have a small utility routine that depends on org-link-search to  
> throw
> an error. It knew how to create the missing headline on it's own.
>
> A recent change and the default settings breaks the original  
> behaviour.
>
> Using this as pretext, may I suggest that signature of org-link-search
> be changed from
>
> (org-link-search S &optional TYPE AVOID-POS)
>
> to
>
> (org-link-search S &optional TYPE AVOID-POS NOERROR)
>
> or an equivalent one.

I think a good solution for your utility would be to bind

(let ((org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline t))

around the body of the function.

>
> ps: A cursory look suggests that the above change would also obviate  
> the
> need for dynamically binding org-link-search-inhibit-query.

I am not sure if I understand this part.

- Carsten