Re: function / way to get a global link to a file

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> Within my personal productivity system that I've implemented using org, I used a main heading like this:
> 
> * tags :one:two:three:...
> 
> I use this in order to match a reference org file to other data that I have throughout my system, and it works great when I want to find all related information with a specific tag from the CLI by using ack or grep. This helps keeping things more organic, in the sense that I
> don't have to think too much when capturing reference data (it can be a headline somewhere, or just a new org file in /refernece, important thing is that it has the proper semantics - i.e tags), but at the same time with enough structure to be useful. I could probably use
> another notation, but that's the one I chose first, and all my reference files have it.
> 
> A problem I'm having however is that everytime I go to such org files and try to get a link to this file using C l, it creates a link to * tags. I then have to hit enter so that it brakes and creates a blank line in the top.
> 
> Is there  a way to always force copying a link *to the file*, instead of org trying to create a link to an item inside the file?
> 

There is also a more permanent solution:

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| org-context-in-file-links is a variable defined in `org.el'.
| Its value is t
| 
| Documentation:
| Non-nil means file links from `org-store-link' contain context.
| A search string will be added to the file name with :: as separator and
| used to find the context when the link is activated by the command
| `org-open-at-point'.  When this option is t, the entire active region
| will be placed in the search string of the file link.  If set to a
| positive integer, only the first n lines of context will be stored.
| 
| Using a prefix arg to the command C-c l (`org-store-link')
| negates this setting for the duration of the command.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
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Nick