thank you. i think the problem needs specifying better than i specified it.
basically, i use org-refile for refile and goto, and i just want exactly the same thing for inserting links also. this is close to that other thread, but i want to emphasize that the goal is specifically to merely use the org-refile mechanism for inserting links also. [i guess the idea is that org-refile is in principle a generic headline-filtering tool that is currently only used for refiling and goto. i want to have it do insert also. perhaps the headline filtering can be factored out as a generic tool and used to insert. not sure.] [more detail: i have various org-refile variables and a verify function set to show me headers exactly right. i use ido-hacks to make the completion ido-ish, but that's not the relevant part.] [more detail: org-id is also not the relevant part [except that, as a bonus feature, inserting a link to a header without an org-id would, only in this particular case, create an org-id in the target and link using org-id, regardless of org-id settings].]
