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* Links in Org-mode : Clunky
@ 2019-07-27 23:43 Nathan Neff
  2019-07-29  0:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nathan Neff @ 2019-07-27 23:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello all,

I've always found that the links in org-mode are basically
very clunky to try to use in a quick fashion.

To my understanding (see my other question about CUSTOM_ID
versus ID) it's a good practice to store either a CUSTOM_ID or ID
- (still can't grok the difference) and then store a hyperlink to that
CUSTOM_ID or ID.

By storing a hyperlink to CUSTOM_ID or ID my heading can change,
but this won't matter.  I can also move the heading to another file, and
links
to it will still work.

However, I find that it's pretty clunky to store a CUSTOM_ID or ID
for a heading, and then copy the link, and then paste it where I want to
use it.  Granted, it's not very difficult using org-store-link and
org-insert-link,
but it's just not as easy as I would think it would be.

I've recently stumbled on Helm and was wondering if anyone has coded some
kind of function that would show me a list of my headings, and create a
CUSTOM_ID
or ID for the heading and then copy a link to that heading so that I could
easily paste it.

Let's say I'm typing some stuff and want to insert a link to another
heading, I would
press some key combo and a helm search would come up.  I would find the
heading that
I want to link to.  If the heading has a CUSTOM_ID property, then a link to
that CUSTOM_ID
would be inserted at the text where my cursor is.  If there's not a
CUSTOM_ID property perhaps a prompt for a CUSTOM_ID could pop up.  Once I
enter the CUSTOM_ID, the link is created and copied to my cursor location /
clipboard.

Has anyone coded such a plugin or am I missing some cool Helm-fu?

Thanks,
--Nate

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