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From: Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Should a human ever set the ID property? Should a human only ever set the CUSTOM_ID property?
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 10:43:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAjq1mdw0GOEZZrTnVofEeWnK3g9mqbL14LjmfF1zK3RZWQTrg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tvu4qbp.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
<eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
> My understanding (and I may be grokking things *incorrectly* here) is
> that CUSTOM_ID is mostly useful when you expect to be to be typing the
> ID itself (ie when linking to a headline), or when it's otherwise
> important that the text of the ID be some precise string, and not a
> random string.
>
> If all you want to do is ensure that all headlines have an ID, I would
> assume that the regular built-in functions would do the trick just fine.
>
> Lots of assumptions there!

Thank you Eric. Agreed. For my use case, they are perfect. If I want
to change them, too, I can change them in the document itself.
CUSTOM_ID seems to be used more for links and capturing.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-20 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-18  4:32 Should a human ever set the ID property? Should a human only ever set the CUSTOM_ID property? Grant Rettke
2016-08-18  5:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-08-20 15:43   ` Grant Rettke [this message]
2016-08-25  8:50 ` Karl Voit
2016-08-27 19:06   ` Grant Rettke

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