Re: insert automatically a reference to a section header and a link

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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there is nothing like that that I know of. You can write your own, in org
(following Eric's use of radio targets) it might look like this.

(defun my-heading ()
  (interactive)
  (let* ((title (string-trim (read-string "title: ")))
(tokens (split-string title " " t))
(label (format "<<sec:%s>>"
(string-join
(seq-take tokens (min 3 (length tokens)))
"-"))))
    (insert (format "%s %s" label title))))

you could also insert the leading * if you prefer.

John

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 8:59 AM Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:

>
> >>> "ESF" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > On Wednesday, 17 Nov 2021 at 08:36, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >> In auctex+reftex it is possible that when I insert a new section header
> >> a reference label is inserted automatically:
>
> > I do the following usually:
>
> > * <<introduction>> Introduction
>
> Right, but how do you do this automatically?
>
> Maybe I did not explain this clearly enough: in auctex+reftex, when I
> fire up the command LaTeX-section, I am
>
>     1. Asked for the title
>
>     2. And then the title *and* a label is inserted automatically. (I
>        can configure what is inserted to a certain extend). Usually I
>        obtain \section{Alternativa de Fredholm}
>        \label{sec:altern-de-fredh}
>
>
> I am looking for a similar functionality in org mode
>
> > In section [[introduction]], I show something.
>
> > I prefer visible labels instead of custom IDs although the latter works
> > as well but you need to say [[id:introduction]].
>
> > HTH,
> > eric
>
>
>

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