fyi, the behavior with your form for me is identical to the behavior without it.
for me, the completions in both cases show
1) an org id
- useless to me, because i think in terms of headings
2) followed by attachment:, eww:, rmail:, and a bunch of other prefixes
- useless to me because i never insert those things
- they take up the entire expanded minibuffer, so nothing usable
for me shows without scrolling
3) followed by (if and only if i scroll with arrow key):
- another org id (useless to me)
- a heading (headings are desirable)
- another heading (headings are desirable)
- another org id (useless to me)
and nothing else. if i stored more headings than those 2, they
are not showing.
if i just press RET, i get the most recently org-store-link 'ed id/heading link.
what i would want:
- insert org ids by their heading
- show ALL stored links, at top, in recency sequence
- if they are org id, show by HEADING
- not by id
- not by olpath
- i don't need the eww: etc. prefixes, but they can be after all that
(optional, extra credit) upon c-u or so, somehow insert all stored
links as a batch, perhaps back until some boundary was set. (e.g.
"now i am going to collect links" then "now i insert them all".)
my completion is ido with ido-hacks. i have org goto stuff set so it
shows headings, not olpaths, and uses completion.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM Steven Allen <ste...@stebalien.com> wrote:
>
>
> I use the following snippet to quickly link to headings by ID with
> via org-insert-link. If there's any interest, I'm happy to clean this
> up and submit a patch but I figured I'd ask first.
>
> (org-link-set-parameters
> "id"
> :complete
> (lambda (&optional _prefix)
> (unless org-id-locations (org-id-locations-load))
> (when-let* ((id (org-id-get-with-outline-path-completion
> '((org-id-files . (:maxlevel . 10))))))
> (concat "id:" id)))
> :insert-description
> (lambda (link desc)
> (or (org-string-nw-p desc)
> (when-let* ((loc (org-id-find (string-remove-prefix "id:" link))))
> (org-with-file-buffer (car loc)
> (save-excursion
> (goto-char (cdr loc))
> (org-link-display-format
> (org-get-heading t t t t))))))))
>
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