Links to datestamped headings broken?

Links to datestamped headings broken?

[Simon Guest]

I have an Org mode file with some date-stamped headers, e.g.
** <2011-04-06 Wed> National Bank

When I org-store-link (C-c l) on that line, I get
Stored: <2011-04-06 Wed> National Bank
which seems right.

When I org-insert-link in another org-mode file, I get
 [[file:~/share/notes/maths-competitions.org::*%20National%20Bank][<2011-04-06 Wed> National Bank]]
which looks wrong, and doesn't work.

I expected to see the date in the URL part of the link.

Am I confused, or is something broken?

cheers,
Simon

Re: Links to datestamped headings broken?

[Bastien]

Hi Simon,

Simon Guest <simon.guest@tesujimath.org> writes:

> I have an Org mode file with some date-stamped headers, e.g.
> ** <2011-04-06 Wed> National Bank

It's better to put timestamps outside of the heading.

> When I org-store-link (C-c l) on that line, I get
> Stored: <2011-04-06 Wed> National Bank
> which seems right.

The description of the link is right, the link isn't, because Org
removes the timestamp.

> When I org-insert-link in another org-mode file, I get
>  [[file:~/share/notes/maths-competitions.org::*%20National%20Bank][<2011-04-06 Wed> National Bank]]
> which looks wrong, and doesn't work.
>
> I expected to see the date in the URL part of the link.
>
> Am I confused, or is something broken?

Two simple workarounds: either load the org-id module, which takes care
of creating unique targets for internal links - or don't put timestamps
at the beginning of the heading.

If you see a place in the documentation where we need to be more acurate
please tell us!

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Links to datestamped headings broken?

[Simon Guest]

At Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:01:27 +0100,
Bastien wrote:
> 
> The description of the link is right, the link isn't, because Org
> removes the timestamp.

> Two simple workarounds: either load the org-id module, which takes care
> of creating unique targets for internal links - or don't put timestamps
> at the beginning of the heading.
> 
> If you see a place in the documentation where we need to be more acurate
> please tell us!

Hi Bastien,

Thanks for the explanation.  

I think the info file section 4.4. Handling Links would benefit from a
note on the fact that Org removes the timestamp, and how to work
around this.

cheers,
Simon

Re: [Orgmode] Links to datestamped headings broken?

[Bastien]

Simon Guest <simon.guest@tesujimath.org> writes:

> I think the info file section 4.4. Handling Links would benefit from a
> note on the fact that Org removes the timestamp, and how to work
> around this.

Done, thanks.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Links to datestamped headings broken?

[Eric S Fraga]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> Simon Guest <simon.guest@tesujimath.org> writes:
>
>> I have an Org mode file with some date-stamped headers, e.g.
>> ** <2011-04-06 Wed> National Bank
>
> It's better to put timestamps outside of the heading.

We had a discussion about this a while back; I understand the preference
you state but, in some use cases, it is quite useful to have time stamps
in the headline, particularly because it makes it easy to sort a
sequence of such headlines in chronological order.

Just my 2¢...

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: using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.529.gb23d.dirty)

Re: Re: Links to datestamped headings broken?

[Samuel Wales]

Missing context but:

Timestamps on headlines prevent ellipses.

They also allow you to look at a sorted list of headlines to zero in
on a timestamp.  I do this instead of using a date tree.

In case it helps.

Samuel

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