[O] Re: outline path in links

[Michael Brand]

Hi all

In the meantime I realized that for a good stability of the document
consistency it is a rather bad idea to have the name of a parent
heading like `Bach' to be part of the key to the item `Prelude' for
the [[*Bach/Prelude]] link mentioned earlier. Therefore I will instead
use :ID: links with the automatically inserted UUID (see `C-h v
org-link-to-org-use-id RET'). Thanks a lot for :ID: links.

Michael


On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 19:18, Michael Brand <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> What do you think about having _outline path in links_ as described in
> the following?
>
> I have seen that an outline path like `Bach/Prelude' can be used to
> refile notes into a heading `Prelude' that has a parent heading named
> `Bach'. An outline path like `Chopin/Prelude' refiles into a different
> heading with the same name `Prelude' but with a different parent
> heading named `Chopin'.
>
> Now I wondered if the link type [[*Bach/Prelude]] could be used to
> _link_ to the first outline path above. This link type would be even
> _plainer plain text_ and easier to add to a Org buffer than the link
> type [[#Bach/Prelude]] because the latter requires to manually add the
> property `:CUSTOM_ID: Bach/Prelude'
>
> I think that such an outline path in links could be possible even
> without the need of adding a new variable org-link-use-outline-path
> similar to the existing variable org-refile-use-outline-path: Like
> today the link [[*Orchestersuite/Ouverture]] would still match a
> heading named `Orchestersuite/Ouverture' (both words on the same
> heading level with a literal slash as part of the heading name) but
> additionally the link [[*Bach/Orchestersuite/Ouverture]] then would
> match this heading only if it has a parent heading named `Bach'. This
> would not be the simplest way to implement but in my opinion the
> priority should be to have as less config variables as possible. Even
> better if the code that gives this flexibility could also be used for
> refiling with outline path and the variable
> org-refile-use-outline-path could be dropped.