I can see this being useful in general, but not avoiding the need for my patch. Org links using search strings already strike a good compromise between working with arbitrary plain text, and allowing links to specific locations. When a search string is enough to find the thing you want to link to, there’s no need to add more IDs manually.
If this is already intended to be an unrelated discussion then feel free to ignore this comment! On Thu, 27 Jul 2023, at 8:42 AM, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes: > >> ... but what if those smaller things >> could have ids without drawers? id markers. then changes in >> surrounding text would not break anything. > > I recall similar idea raised in > https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/cajniy+ovd0ncwzztpit5t7wvsblbgllxzmpub5tgq3gshsg...@mail.gmail.com/ > > But there was not much interest. > > It was pointed that we already have link targets, although they are not > global. Making link targets global is doable. > > -- > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, > Org mode contributor, > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. > Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, > or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
