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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Visiting an Entry with an ID
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:12:18 -0500
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I posted this answer on SO:

(defun open-id (id)
  (org-id-goto id)
  (message "%s" (current-buffer)))

It seems to do what you want.

Alan Parker Lue writes:

> Trying to figure out how to switch buffers when visiting an entry given an
> ID in Elisp. To elaborate:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35299171/org-mode-elisp-how-does-one-switch-the-buffer-when-using-an-id-to-visit-an-en
>
> Does anyone have an answer for this?


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