From: "Gustav Wikström" <gustav@whil.se>
To: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
TRS-80 <trs-80@isnotmyreal.name>
Subject: Re: Any reason not to generate my own custom ID value (NOT CUSTOM_ID)?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:00:02 +0000 [thread overview]
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Hi TRS-80,
Your approach should work just fine. So fine, in fact, that it's already kind of built in! Configure org-id-method and set it to 'ts and you'll get timestamps as ID instead of uuid.
I do believe the manual lacks a description for this. Not entirely sure though, and can't check atm. But the configuration is there none the less, and supported.
Kind regards
Gustav
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From: Emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode-bounces+gustav=whil.se@gnu.org> on behalf of TRS-80 <trs-80@isnotmyreal.name>
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2020 10:02:45 PM
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Subject: Any reason not to generate my own custom ID value (NOT CUSTOM_ID)?
First, I want to express my sincere and heart-felt gratitude to Carsten
(and other contributors) for making and sharing this wonderful piece of
software. I have come to refer to it as "one of the gateway drugs to
Emacs" (the other being Magit, IMHO). It was certainly one of (if not
/the/) main reason(s) why I started using Emacs initially.
I could in fact gush all day, however people are busy, so, on to the
main issue... :)
It seems to me that there is nothing really stopping me from inserting
whatever value I like for value of "ID" Property. Based on brief
experimentation, org-store-link and org-insert-link seem to happily
accept whatever value is already there (which I entered manually, for
testing purposes).
However I seem to recall reading some warning somewhere about this,
although I cannot seem to find it right now.
What I would like to do, is generate my own ID values in a more human
readable format, something "ISO-like" for example "2020-09-10-1433" (as
opposed to the default "uuid" method). These sort of ID are still
"Unique" (well, within my own system, anyway) as long as I am not
generating them more often than once per minute[0]. And they have the
advantages of being shorter, human readable, and meaningful.
Even when org-id-link-to-org-use-id and org-id-track-globally are both
set to "t", org-id seems happy to insert my "ISO-like" ID right into the
hash table and org-id-locations-file.
I do need the "across files" functionality. My understanding is that
this is main difference between ID and CUSTOM_ID (the latter being local
only to the file). Unless I am misunderstanding?
So, what am I missing here? Any reason(s) /not/ to use my own custom ID
value?
In addition to the general case, one particular area I am unsure about
(as I have yet to get it working) is how this all works out with HTML
export, as that is something I also wanted to get working at some point.
I tried studying some of the related sources (as well as mailing list
archive), but could not seem to reach a conclusive answer. I was hoping
that some more knowledgeable people could confirm
whether this is a really bad idea, or not. Any feedback would be
greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
TRS-80
[0] It could easily be extended to second (or further) resolution, if
needed. For me, minute resolution will be fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-10 20:02 Any reason not to generate my own custom ID value (NOT CUSTOM_ID)? TRS-80
2020-09-10 22:00 ` Gustav Wikström [this message]
2020-09-10 22:16 ` TRS-80
2020-09-13 20:18 ` Bastien
2020-09-10 22:20 ` Samuel Wales
2020-09-10 23:33 ` TRS-80
2020-09-11 1:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-11 1:31 ` TRS-80
2020-09-11 7:51 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-13 20:19 ` Bastien
2020-09-23 7:19 ` Bastien
2020-09-23 7:43 ` [PATCH] " Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-23 7:48 ` Bastien
2020-09-23 8:08 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-23 8:30 ` Bastien
2020-09-23 8:40 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-23 8:48 ` Bastien
2021-04-25 14:19 ` Bastien
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