Re: Inserting links stored in `org-store-link-plist`

["Alejandro Pérez Carballo" <apc@umass.edu>]

Thanks for the suggestions! Will have a look. 

Best, 

A. 

> On Feb 25, 2022, at 8:25 AM, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 25/02/2022 04:11, Alejandro Pérez Carballo wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply. I can store the ID calling `org-store-link'
>> if `org-id-link-to-org-use-id' is set to a non-nil value. But I wanted to be able to have `org-id-link-to-org-use-id' set to nil and
>> also have a function to store an ID link. (I make use of ID only in
>> certain files and try to avoid them otherwise, preferring the default
>> method of using a link to the file with a search string pointing to
>> the current line in most cases.)
> 
> I have no idea what interface `org-store-link' should have to be really flexible and convenient.
> 
> Have you considered file- (or directory-) local variables?
> info "(emacs) Specifying File Variables"
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html
> 
> # Local Variables:
> # org-id-link-to-org-use-id: use-existing
> # End:
> 
> at the end of specific files.
> 
>> I had expected that `org-insert-link' would be able to retrieve links stored both with `org-store-link' and `org-id-store-link'—it
>> seemed like a natural assumption, perhaps because I do not know of
>> other reasons for having an interactive function that stores links
>> aside from being able to insert them later?
> I can not say that I am happy with implementation of `org-store-link' or that I fully understand ideas behind ol.el. I just found an example of `org-id-store-link' usage:
> https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-contrib/tree/master/item/lisp/org-contacts.el#L1171
> see definition of "org-contact" link a bit above as well.