Hi Eric,
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 15:49, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear all org mode list readers,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
I use org-refile with ivy, so I might share. If I recall correctly, the
only thing that does not play well between the two is
`org-outline-path-complete-in-steps`. My basic setup is the following:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq org-refile-targets
'((org-agenda-files :maxlevel . 6)
;; 'nil' means consider headings of the current buffer
(nil :maxlevel . 6)))
(setq org-refile-use-outline-path 'file)
(setq org-outline-path-complete-in-steps nil)
#+end_src
That should get you started. I personally like org-refile for its
quickness, so I do some extra work to filter out candidates of this list
and keeping only the frequent targets (with
`org-refile-target-verify-function'). And if something atypical arises,
I just go with kill-yank.
Note however, on the relation of org-refile and ivy:
https://orgmode.org/list/87tuvrj7ww....@gmail.com/
HTH,
Gustavo.
