Re: inconsistency links and code line labels

[gerard . vermeulen]

On 06.07.2023 14:49, Dan Drake wrote:
> There's a bug [[(my-code-line-label)][right here]].
>
> This seems inconsistent. Why do I have to omit the ref: bit? This
> always confuses me; it seems like it would be simpler to just make the
> label and the links to that line of code be exactly the same. I don't
> see any particular reference to this in the org manual
> (https://orgmode.org/manual/Internal-Links.html [2]). Any insights?
>
> My idea would be to get rid of the special behavior for code line
> labels and just make this work with dedicated targets: in regular
> parts of my org file, I use <<link-target>> and can make links to
> that. It would be simple and consistent to make that also work the
> same when <<link-target>> is inside a code block.
Such link targets would conflict with <<code-block-id>> references
See: https://orgmode.org/manual/Noweb-Reference-Syntax.html

Therefore something like the behavior described in
https://orgmode.org/manual/Literal-Examples.html
must have been invented (look at the description of the -n, -r, and
-l switches).

Regards -- Gerard