Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes:
> link has already been stored is a bug in my case in that i can't just
> go to a header, grab it [whether rabbed bfere or not] and then paste
> it. i surprise easily when the wrong link gets pasted.
This has been fixed already.
> in answer to a q by ihor, indeed puttig previously stored id liks as
> descriptions in front of all the prefixes woudl be useful to me, but
> idk who is doing the sorting, so idk whether it wold make a difference
> but if it dos then gret..]
Org is actually not supposed to control sorting. It is to be customized
by user via `completions-sort'.
What we can do instead is provide grouping metadata.
Below, I provide a simple demo on how it looks like.
However, the demo will only make a difference starting from Emacs 28
that has the necessary completion API.
(defun org--complete-links (string predicate flag)
(let* ((links '(:type ("id:" "file:") :path ("/a/a/b" "file.org")
:description ("foo" "barr" "baz")))
(all-links (append (plist-get links :type) (plist-get links :path)
(plist-get links :description)))
matches)
(pcase flag
(`nil (try-completion string all-links predicate))
(`t (all-completions string all-links predicate))
(`lambda (test-completion string all-links predicate))
(`(boundaries . suffix) (completion-boundaries string all-links predicate
suffix))
(`metadata
`(metadata
(group-function
.
(lambda (completion transform)
(if transform completion
(let ((links ',links))
(cond
((member completion (plist-get links :type)) "Link type")
((member completion (plist-get links :path)) "Link path")
((member completion (plist-get links :description)) "Link
description")))))))))))
(completing-read "Test: " #'org--complete-links)
> it seems org-insert-=inki is overloaded. one use case says insert a
> previously stored link. the other says insert a brand new link which
> i will now specify. might it be useful to separate those two
> functions?
I do not see why it is overloaded. The last stored link is used as
default completion option, which is a common practice.
You can also use C-u 1 C-c C-M-l to insert the last stored link.
Or just C-c C-M-l.
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