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From: Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>
To: Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>Nathan Neff
	<nathan.neff@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: CUSTOM_ID vs ID
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:55:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvb1b9qf.fsf@aquinas.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=HedC+ChHz3PKNorY9ihmdHDZfj-sF+zQmd4sbAN4gitTbfA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Nate,

Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:

> However, I usually *do* manually assign IDs (not CUSTOM_IDs) myself.
> The reason is so I can reasonably search for the ID within my org
> files and that the link ID makes some sense to me.
>
> For example, if I see a link to "id:keyboard_shortcuts" I can tell where
> it's going.

If this is what you want IDs for, then you probably want CUSTOM_ID.
There is built-in Org syntax for links based on CUSTOM_ID: write your
links like [[#some-custom-id]] or [[file:foo.org::#some-custom-id]].

And if you use CUSTOM_ID, then if you ever need ID later (e.g., for
something like org-caldav), you won't have a collision between the two
different properties.

-- 
Best,
Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-01  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-27 23:35 CUSTOM_ID vs ID Nathan Neff
2019-07-28  8:10 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-07-29  4:23   ` David Masterson
2019-07-29  6:38     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-08-02  4:54       ` David Masterson
2019-07-30  0:38   ` Nathan Neff
2019-08-01  7:55     ` Richard Lawrence [this message]
2019-08-09 11:13     ` Adam Porter
2019-08-02 14:53   ` Nathan Neff
2019-08-09 11:12     ` Adam Porter
2019-08-18  0:53   ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2019-08-18 10:40     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-08-18 14:24       ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2019-08-18 15:05         ` Nicolas Goaziou

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