Re: [PATCH] Bug: fragile org refile cache

[Samuel Wales]

thanks for reporting that you use it.

would it be more useful if it automaticaly generated the cache instead
of telling you to runt he command to do so?

if a solid, perhaps unified, cache existed, would org-id use it too?

On 4/28/21, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> long ago i used to use the refile cache.  i think it is probably not
>> widely used, or maybe even not at all.
>
> At least, I do use it. A lot. I rely on it.
>
> I do not observe the breakage as described in the first message, mostly
> because I use refile cache exclusively for org-refile. Yet, I often see
> "Please regenerate the refile cache with C-0 C-c C-w" when I do a lot of
> batch refiling. A faster, more reliable, caching would be certainly
> welcome.
>
> In general, various parts of Org mode code base implement different
> types of caches in parallel. I am aware at least about org-element,
> org-scan-tags, org-agenda, org-refile, and org-goto. Probably Org mode
> could benefit from unified caching mechanism? A good implementation
> coming to my mind is org-ql [1]. It implements tag caches, outline path
> caches, and can even be used to cache results of an arbitrary function
> with point at heading. Basically, all (except org-element) types of
> caches Org mode uses now are already implemented in org-ql in unified
> way.
>
> WDYT?
>
> [1] https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql
>
> Best,
> Ihor
>


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