Re: Feature request: shared radio targets with archive files

[Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>]

Hi Bastien,

* Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> Can somebody estimate on the effort and potential negative
>> implications (performance, caching issues, ...) when this feature
>> would be extended, so that radio targets of foo.org also work[2] in
>> foo.org_archive and vice versa?
>
> Radio targets only work within the same file.
>
> Just like HTML anchor links: <a href="#anchor">voila</a>.
>
> Allowing a radio target to be reached outside the current file would
> lead to blur the distinction between radio targets and... links.

Oh, what a bummer.

> That said, you can write your own function, taking inspiration from
> org-link--search-radio-target and adding it to org-open-link-functions,
> where your function searches the target outside of the current buffer.
>
> Not sure, of course, whether this is trivial or not :)

Hehe.

OK, it was worth the (short) discussion.

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