Re: org-refile and ivy

[Pankaj Jangid]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I have been trying to get to grips with org-refile.  For some reason,
> the completion mechanism (I use ivy generally but I have no idea what
> org-refile actually tries to do/use) only shows me the current file name
> if I have org-refile-targets set to nil.  It doesn't show any top level
> headlines to choose from which is what I would expect from the
> documentation.  Hitting RET to select the completion target given (file
> name only) refiles to the end of the file which is not what I want.

I use the built-in completion framework. And if the org-refile-targets
is nil, it shows me the top level headings from the same file in the
*Completions* buffer when I press TAB.

So, in your case, it looks like an Ivy issue.

> This is with org updated fairly recently but not quite up to
> date.  However, I've had this problem for a long time and don't use
> org-refile as a result.

My org-version is 9.4.4