stating the obvious: org typically stores a forest [files] of trees of nodes. some things you want to put into it are best expressed more generally than with trees. i call it [boring name] the tree problem.
there are a bunch of existing sort-of solutions, but to me the best is linking [as you mentioned], using org-id. although that only links to entries, and it requires following links. one entry becomes canonical. you have to set metadata for the linking node. there are solutions not implemented that could be better that have been talked about on the mailng list, but they still have the issues of following links or other issues. duplication is out the window because dry. what you seem to want seems to require a feature in emacs in which you have virtual includable regions. this can be done to a large degree at the buffer level, but not at the region level. that would open up some interesting possibilities, maybe including inline multi-mode stuff. and it would fix your problem. you could maybe color the one that is in the file itself differently, or keep all looking equal status to the user. i think there has been discussion on the mailing list and probalby on emacs-devel recently about an idea similar to this. it migth be teh same as what you want. not sure. it goes by a different name. smoevbody will chime in i hope. On 5/2/20, David Rogers <davidandrewrog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a method I can use to include the same subtree in several different > files, such that editing one instance of that subtree updates the others > automatically? I'm hoping to be able to view the full version of the subtree > in each of the files, without having to follow a link; if what I'm > describing isn't really possible, then I'll just use links in the other > files to point to the original subtree, which I know how to do. I'm just > exploring the sometimes-unexpected possibilities. :) > > -- > Thanks > David > > -- The Kafka Pandemic What is misopathy? https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
