Re: org-insert-link completion by description (Re: what is the purpose of "This link has already been stored"?)

[Samuel Wales]

again i normally work with 1 window so i can have enough text.
sometimes i have a minuibffer.  the end.

On 7/3/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> the copletions window dos notc ontain the link dscription or a
> default.  there is no tdeafult listed in minibuffer or any tlink
> description.  so it is 1 orig buffer, which is saller and therefoere
> lss useful, 1 links buffer, which is useless beause does not show what
> i need, 1 copletions buffer which is useollss befause all it shows is
> url prefixes, and a minibuffer which shows nothing.
>
> On 7/3/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>> maybe most folk are ok with 3 windows + minibuffer.  this is not useful
>> to
>> me.
>>
>> On 7/3/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> please feel free to give up if that doesn't get it across.  i can't
>>> continue a bac and forth for unrelated reasons.
>>>
>>> On 7/3/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> scratch the expanded thing.
>>>>
>>>> it ends up showing orig smaller less useful, links uselessly
>>>> boilerplate, completions -- 3 windows!  and a terse minibuffer i
>>>> wouldn't be able to use.  -q.  i cannot use such a ui.
>>>>
>>>> in contrast, what i expected is orig, and then expanded minibuffer
>>>> with, instead of doi: and so on, has useful links as descriotions.
>>>> only 1 window, if you don't count minibuffer.
>>>>
>>>> On 7/3/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> defait cp[;etopm immediately makes 2 windows [orig+links] + expanded
>>>>> completion imnibuffer.  not useful for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/3/23, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 02/07/2023 13:03, Samuel Wales wrote:
>>>>>>> there is not supposed to be any connection between org refile or org
>>>>>>> goto with the code in org insert link.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> completion works to select ol paths for org refile and also for org
>>>>>>> refile when it is doing goto.  i just want the same for links.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am giving up my attempts to clarify a possible issue with
>>>>>> completion
>>>>>> by description in `org-insert-link'. It works for me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 7/1/23, Max Nikulin wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 02/07/2023 12:02, Samuel Wales wrote:
>>>>>>>>> another window would not work for me but using completion as i do
>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>> e.g. refile goto would.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Samuel, you claimed that completion by description does not work
>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>> `org-insert-link'. I expect that it is fixed in Org-9.6 since I do
>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>> see the issue with the default completion. It is the reason why I
>>>>>>>> asked
>>>>>>>> you to confirm that *default completion* works for you as well. I
>>>>>>>> suspect that the cause of your problem is either ido or your
>>>>>>>> customization.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I see no connection of `org-refile' and `org-goto' with the code in
>>>>>>>> `org-insert-link'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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