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From: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
Subject: Re: FR: refile-and-link
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:54:47 +0000
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 07:21:30PM -0500, Kyle Meyer wrote:
> Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> wrote:
> > Forgive me if this has already been implemented, but I couldn't see
> > it...
> 
> I don't know of a command that does this.
> 
> > I'm looking for something similar to the "extract method" operation
> > which refactoring IDEs can perform on code.  You would select a
> > headline (or maybe even region), hit `refile-and-link', and then after
> > the normal refiling, a link to the refiled section would be inserted
> > in the place where the refiled section previously lived.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> The last refile location is stored in org-bookmark-names-plist. The
> (lightly tested) function below uses that information to create a link
> to the refiled heading.
> 
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (defun org-refile-and-link ()
>     "Refile heading, adding a link to the new location.
>   Prefix arguments are interpreted by `org-refile'."
>     (interactive)
>     (when (member current-prefix-arg '(3 (4) (16)))
>       (user-error "Linking is incompatible with that prefix argument"))
>     (let ((heading  (org-get-heading t t))
>           (orig-file (buffer-file-name)))
>       (call-interactively #'org-refile)
>       (let* ((refile-file
>               (bookmark-get-filename
>                (assoc (plist-get org-bookmark-names-plist :last-refile)
>                       bookmark-alist)))
>              (same-file (string= orig-file refile-file))
>              (link (if same-file
>                        (concat "*" heading)
>                      (concat refile-file "::*" heading)))
>              (desc heading))
>         (open-line 1)
>         (insert (org-make-link-string link desc)))))
> #+end_src

Thanks a lot!  I've noticed a couple of minor issues - hopefully I'll
fix them when I get time and then maybe submit a patch.