Re: Bring up a screen giving option to open a series of orgmode files

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> [2020-11-24 10:25]:
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> > Side note: there shall be feature in Org that quickly
> > captures the full link to the heading. Maybe it already
> > exists. Instead of constructing links by hand like entering
> > the file name, entering the heading for the link, there
> > shall by some automated feature:
> 
> See org-store-link and org-insert-link. org-store-link stores link in a
> link ring and the link/links can be later inserted using
> org-insert-link.

That is great feature. I have got many good tips from you and I slowly
process them and implement such.

I knew about org-store-link and not that I used it much within
Emacs. Such feature is necessary in any system managing
hyperlinks. Programmers are exposed to let us say WWW but may not know
where the roots come from and that hyperlinking was envisioned back in
time even before modern computers.

Memex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

Now we have `evince' PDF viewer that can open PDF I think by page
number and by query but it cannot do the equivalent
`evince-store-link' so user has to think about the file name and page
number and so on.

We have browsers that each of them think for themselves. Each can
store bookmarks but hardly provide such to external programs.

Almost none browser can store specific paragraph based bookmark. They
rely mostly on anchors as finely specified greed. Bookmarks could be
by HTML page number or query or paragraph.

Even modern browsers have very poor functions of managing
bookmarks.

File managers do not provide `file-manager-store-link' but they should
as it would be very useful to have programs integrate with each other
that hyperdocument systems can be built.

> > Org headings can be or could be marked with later action on
> > the whole collection of headings:
> 
> See bulk commands in agenda (Bulk remote editing selected entries):
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Commands.html
> 
> Manually picking headlines to put into agenda is not currently possible
> in org-mode, but one can volunteer to do it. It is not too hard to
> implement. Patches are welcome.

Myself I would not know why to manually pick and put into agenda.

> > - re-filing all of them at once
> 
> built-in

Do you mean it is possible to mark 5-6 headlines and then re-file them
quickly to other file?

That would spare me some organizing efforts.

> > - sending them all by email to other person (I do with Org)
> 
> > - sending hyperlinks in other Org file (I do in HyperScope)
> 
> > - creating new Org file with the collection of headings
> 
> not implemented, but see org-agenda-bulk-custom-functions for extending
> the built-in functionality

Thank you for reference.