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

[Samuel Wales]

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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