Re: storing a link to a task from an agenda view

[Ihor Radchenko]

> Do you have suggestions on how to store such a link from an agenda view?
> It can either end up in ~org-stored-links~ or captured in a variable.

(org-store-link nil) -> (org-store-link nil 'interactive)

Or you can just save the return value of (org-store-link nil)

Best,
Ihor

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to store a link to a task while the cursor is on it in the
> agenda view. I tried ~org-store-link~ on it, but it tells me there is no
> method to do so. So I looked at some of the org-agenda code to find a
> way to get to the underlying task, and I tried this:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun as/mk-agenda-link ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let* ((marker (or (org-get-at-bol 'org-marker)
>                      (org-agenda-error)))
>          (buffer (marker-buffer marker))
>          (pos (marker-position marker)))
>     (with-current-buffer buffer
>       (save-excursion
>         (goto-char pos)
>         (org-store-link nil)
>         ))))
> #+end_src
>
> but it does not store anything. (I have to put the ~nil~ at the
> ~org-store-link~ code otherwise I have an error, and looking at some of
> the ~org-capture~ code, I saw it there.)
>
> Do you have suggestions on how to store such a link from an agenda view?
> It can either end up in ~org-stored-links~ or captured in a variable.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan