Re: [O] Structured links to headings with endless depth

[Ihor Radchenko]

> There must be good reasons why some more
> users than just me sometimes prefer the format B over A:

Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.

Best,
Ihor


Michael Brand <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Ihor
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 5:27 AM Ihor Radchenko <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I am wondering why you are strictly against ID properties.
>
> To me this looks like a misunderstanding. I use the ID often but my
> weighting of the different advantages is not the same in all cases.
> Some situations where no ID can be seen as an advantage: Looking at
> the raw view (for example visible-mode during ediff), looking at the
> raw file (when in the other world outside of Org mode), the time it
> can take to not find an ID in all the ID files when the target file or
> ID is not accessible, etc. There must be good reasons why some more
> users than just me sometimes prefer the format B over A:
>
> #+name: A
> #+begin_src org
> - [[id:8e5c5d87-291e-469b-a8e4-15704610c82c][The heading name]]
> ,* The heading name
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :ID:       8e5c5d87-291e-469b-a8e4-15704610c82c
>   :END:
> #+end_src
>
> #+name: B
> #+begin_src org
> - [[*The heading name]]
> ,* The heading name
> #+end_src
>
> Michael