Hi once more,
well after sending this patch I noticed, that org-id-update-id-locations
has become orders of magnitude faster on my system; with org 9.4 it
takes seconds instead of minutes as with org 9.3. Which is great news :-)
This alone may dratically reduce the need for changing the behaviour of
org-id-find as contained in my patch.
So you may feel free to ignore it ...
Best Marc
Am 12.06.2021 um 16:16 schrieb Marc-Oliver Ihm:
Hi,
please find attached a patch to allow more flexible handling of missing ids in
org-id-find; some people (like me) tend to lose ids now and then and may
benefit from more choices.
The current behaviour of calling org-id-update-id-locations is pretty perfect
for situations where the id has been moved to another file (which will be the
case in most situations, I guess). However, sometimes an id has simply been
deleted and then searching for it in all files can not be helpful. Especially
lisp-code calling org-id-find might want to handle things on its own.
To this goal, a new custom org-id-action-on-missing-id has been added;
reproducing its description from the patch:
(defcustom org-id-action-on-missing-id 'update
"Special action to be taken, if `org-id-find' cannot find an id.
With 'update (default), org-id-find will silently call
`org-id-update-id-locations' and try again; this will help,
e.g. if you have moved the id to another file.
With 'exception, the exception 'not-found will be thrown, which
can be useful, if `org-id-find' is called from within lisp and
the caller wants to handle the situation.
With 'error, a descriptive error will be raised, causing the
current command to terminate."
:group 'org-id
:type '(choice
(const :tag "Run `org-id-update-id-locations' if an id cannot be
found" update)
(const :tag "Throw exception `not-found'" exception)
(const :tag "Raise an error" error)
))
the handling in org-id-find is straightforward.
The default corresponds to the current behaviour.
I would like to ask for opinions/discussion on this patch and maybe see it applied if found fit.
Best regards
Marc Ihm
