Hi all In the meantime I realized that for a good stability of the document consistency it is a rather bad idea to have the name of a parent heading like `Bach' to be part of the key to the item `Prelude' for the [[*Bach/Prelude]] link mentioned earlier. Therefore I will instead use :ID: links with the automatically inserted UUID (see `C-h v org-link-to-org-use-id RET'). Thanks a lot for :ID: links.
Michael On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 19:18, Michael Brand <michael.ch.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > What do you think about having _outline path in links_ as described in > the following? > > I have seen that an outline path like `Bach/Prelude' can be used to > refile notes into a heading `Prelude' that has a parent heading named > `Bach'. An outline path like `Chopin/Prelude' refiles into a different > heading with the same name `Prelude' but with a different parent > heading named `Chopin'. > > Now I wondered if the link type [[*Bach/Prelude]] could be used to > _link_ to the first outline path above. This link type would be even > _plainer plain text_ and easier to add to a Org buffer than the link > type [[#Bach/Prelude]] because the latter requires to manually add the > property `:CUSTOM_ID: Bach/Prelude' > > I think that such an outline path in links could be possible even > without the need of adding a new variable org-link-use-outline-path > similar to the existing variable org-refile-use-outline-path: Like > today the link [[*Orchestersuite/Ouverture]] would still match a > heading named `Orchestersuite/Ouverture' (both words on the same > heading level with a literal slash as part of the heading name) but > additionally the link [[*Bach/Orchestersuite/Ouverture]] then would > match this heading only if it has a parent heading named `Bach'. This > would not be the simplest way to implement but in my opinion the > priority should be to have as less config variables as possible. Even > better if the code that gives this flexibility could also be used for > refiling with outline path and the variable > org-refile-use-outline-path could be dropped.
