Re: Assistant to remove unused IDs of org-id

[Marc Ihm]

Hi Adam,
thanx for your feedback !
Your main point (the central function beeing to long) is undisputed;
will fix this during the next refactoring ...
Best regards,
Marc
Am 13.04.2020 um 22:04 schrieb Adam Porter:
> Marc-Oliver Ihm <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > as I use the excellent package org-id in a somewhat non-standard way,
> > I tend to produce IDs, that are not referenced from anywhere. Org-id
> > handles this great and does not suffer in performance, but eventually
> > I want to remove those unreferenced IDs.  Therefore I have written a
> > small interactive assistant:
> >
> > https://github.com/marcIhm/org-working-set/blob/master/org-id-cleanup.el
> >
> > to help with removing those IDs.  The assistant (interactive function:
> > org-id-cleanup) is quite detailed with its instructions and checks, so
> > that the risk of doing harm ist reduced to a minimum, although not to
> > zero (therefore the first step is to ask for a backup).
> >
> > In any case I wonder, if this functionality (removing unreferenced
> > IDs) could be helpful for anyone else.
> >
> > So please feel free to have a look.  Finally I would be grateful for
> > any comment whatsoever (e.g. regarding the name of org-id-cleanup.el).
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> Thanks, this looks useful.  I posted some feedback as an issue on the
> repository.
>
> Adam