Re: [O] Internal Links with Spaces

[John Kitchin]

I think you need to set

(setq org-id-link-to-org-use-id 'create-if-interactive)

Then the usual C-c l and C-c C-l should work to store links and insert
them.

It might be worth noting though, that in my experience, this is most
useful for links within a file, or to files in your agenda list. org does not
have a good way to find an id in a non-agenda file if that file is not
already open. Although there should be a .org-id-locations file
somewhere that stores this mapping of id to file. I have not experienced
100% success with this.

Also, you have to be a little cautious about copying a headline to
another place, because then you have two ids in different places.

anyway, the point is try it out and see if it works for you ;)

Jacob Gerlach writes:

> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Leo Ufimtsev <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On the side, if of any help:
>>
>> I generally use ID's for linking to headings.
>> The benefit is that headings can be re-named safley and links still work.
>
> A great suggestion. I wasn't aware of the feature, and renaming safety
> is a great benefit while also solving my space problem.
>
> I don't suppose there's a trick to automatically update descriptions
> for links whose target has been renamed?
>
> When exploring this, I found the function org-id-store-link. This
> seemed like what I wanted - it creates a custom ID if one doesn't
> exist, but it doesn't actually store a link (or at least, it wasn't
> available when I then ran org-insert-link). The docstring is pretty
> light, but it seems like this might be a bug. Is this the expected
> behavior?
>
> Thanks for the pointer in any case.
>
> Regards,
> Jake

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