ido, org-insert-link, and completion based on link description

[Max Nikulin]

Hi,

Does anyone have an idea why it was necessary to drop completion of 
stored links based on their description for the sake of ido?

I am not an ido user, so I am surprised that such feature negatively 
affected usability. I mean the commit

7f096ad37 2012-10-12 14:39:53 +1100 Tony Day: org-insert-link: Use ido 
when inserting links
https://list.orgmode.org/04D0E787-A8A1-4246-8DD2-D607E38D61BA@gmail.com/T/#u

> -                     (mapcar 'cadr org-stored-links))

If I read the code correctly, Bastien added this line to include link 
descriptions to the completion list in response to

Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala. #+LABEL and CUSTOM_ID with reftex. Mon, 21 May 
2012 04:45:29 +0900
https://list.orgmode.org/877gw6ocva.fsf@okhotsk19.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp/T/#u

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=1e34c5d34
2012-08-03 14:08:20 +0200 Bastien Guerry: org.el: Fontify links to 
current buffer when inserting a link.

The only issue I suspect is that `org-store-link' may add to the list of 
stored links entries with identical path and description causing 
duplicated completion options, but it may be solved in another way.

From my point of view, currently the code of `org-insert-link' related 
to `auto-desc' is completely confusing. It was added to allow 
description completion, but it was not removed in the commit related to 
ido. It is rather inconsistent, so it may be unintentional.


P.S. My question is related to the following threads:
- Carlos Pita. Adding target and custom id links doesn't ask for 
description. Tue, 2 Aug 2022 14:44:58 -0300. 
https://list.orgmode.org/D99A712C-18D1-4A4F-8093-35A0BFB469C4@gmail.com
- Max Nikulin. Re: Bug: org-store-link uses CUSTOM_ID instead of target 
point. Sat, 6 Nov 2021 19:51:29 +0700. 
https://list.orgmode.org/e2c807a7-1924-6f08-9e63-4f70aee9d3b5@gmail.com

I decided to start a new thread to concentrate on ido, link completion 
by their description, and the `auto-desc' variable.