Re: Re: links and ID properties

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Jul 14, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>>> In addition to using org-mode for scheduling and email integration  
>>> and
>>> all that, I've had great success setting up a translation  
>>> environment
>>> I'm finally pleased with. I keep vocabulary items in a separate  
>>> file,
>>> and then create links from vocabulary items into the actual text I'm
>>> translating.
>>>
>>> I've switched computers recently and in the process something has  
>>> gone
>>> wrong with the vocab links. So far as I know, org-link-to-org-use-id
>>> has
>>> always had its default value of create-if-interactive-and-no-custom-
>>> id,
>>> but now calling org-store-link no longer creates an ID property on  
>>> the
>>> target headline (there's no custom id).
>>
>> It does for me.
>>
>>
> [...]
>
>>
>>
>> First of all, I suspect that maybe you are not running the version of
>> Org-mode you think you are.
>> What does M-x org-version return?
>>
>> Second, you can try to recreate the file that links IDs to files.
>> Just load
>> all the relevant Org files into Emacs and then run
>>
>> M-x org-id-update-id-locations RET
>
> After tracking down that command, It seems the only problem is that I
> didn't have org-id in org-modules. I don't think I've ever had it in
> there (did it use to get loaded by default?), but adding it solved my
> problems.

I have just added and autoload for org-id-store-link.  I guess if you  
use

     (setq org-link-to-org-use-id 'create-if-interactive-and-no-custom- 
id)

(which is the default), then org-id should be autoloaded.

- Carsten