FR: refile-and-link

FR: refile-and-link

[Adam Spiers]

Hi all!

Forgive me if this has already been implemented, but I couldn't see it...

I'm looking for something similar to the "extract method" operation
which refactoring IDEs can perform on code.  You would select a
headline (or maybe even region), hit `refile-and-link', and then after
the normal refiling, a link to the refiled section would be inserted
in the place where the refiled section previously lived.

Thoughts?

Thanks!
Adam

Re: FR: refile-and-link

[Thierry Pellé]

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+1

Since the destination is known after the refiling it may not be difficult.
I say this but I'am not an elisp literate ;-)

Thierry

Le 03/12/2014 13:46, Adam Spiers a écrit :
> Hi all!
>
> Forgive me if this has already been implemented, but I couldn't see it...
>
> I'm looking for something similar to the "extract method" operation
> which refactoring IDEs can perform on code.  You would select a
> headline (or maybe even region), hit `refile-and-link', and then after
> the normal refiling, a link to the refiled section would be inserted
> in the place where the refiled section previously lived.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
> Adam
>
>

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Re: FR: refile-and-link

[Kyle Meyer]

Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> wrote:
> Forgive me if this has already been implemented, but I couldn't see
> it...

I don't know of a command that does this.

> I'm looking for something similar to the "extract method" operation
> which refactoring IDEs can perform on code.  You would select a
> headline (or maybe even region), hit `refile-and-link', and then after
> the normal refiling, a link to the refiled section would be inserted
> in the place where the refiled section previously lived.
>
> Thoughts?

The last refile location is stored in org-bookmark-names-plist. The
(lightly tested) function below uses that information to create a link
to the refiled heading.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (defun org-refile-and-link ()
    "Refile heading, adding a link to the new location.
  Prefix arguments are interpreted by `org-refile'."
    (interactive)
    (when (member current-prefix-arg '(3 (4) (16)))
      (user-error "Linking is incompatible with that prefix argument"))
    (let ((heading  (org-get-heading t t))
          (orig-file (buffer-file-name)))
      (call-interactively #'org-refile)
      (let* ((refile-file
              (bookmark-get-filename
               (assoc (plist-get org-bookmark-names-plist :last-refile)
                      bookmark-alist)))
             (same-file (string= orig-file refile-file))
             (link (if same-file
                       (concat "*" heading)
                     (concat refile-file "::*" heading)))
             (desc heading))
        (open-line 1)
        (insert (org-make-link-string link desc)))))
#+end_src

--
Kyle

Re: FR: refile-and-link

[Adam Spiers]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 07:21:30PM -0500, Kyle Meyer wrote:
> Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> wrote:
> > Forgive me if this has already been implemented, but I couldn't see
> > it...
> 
> I don't know of a command that does this.
> 
> > I'm looking for something similar to the "extract method" operation
> > which refactoring IDEs can perform on code.  You would select a
> > headline (or maybe even region), hit `refile-and-link', and then after
> > the normal refiling, a link to the refiled section would be inserted
> > in the place where the refiled section previously lived.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> The last refile location is stored in org-bookmark-names-plist. The
> (lightly tested) function below uses that information to create a link
> to the refiled heading.
> 
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (defun org-refile-and-link ()
>     "Refile heading, adding a link to the new location.
>   Prefix arguments are interpreted by `org-refile'."
>     (interactive)
>     (when (member current-prefix-arg '(3 (4) (16)))
>       (user-error "Linking is incompatible with that prefix argument"))
>     (let ((heading  (org-get-heading t t))
>           (orig-file (buffer-file-name)))
>       (call-interactively #'org-refile)
>       (let* ((refile-file
>               (bookmark-get-filename
>                (assoc (plist-get org-bookmark-names-plist :last-refile)
>                       bookmark-alist)))
>              (same-file (string= orig-file refile-file))
>              (link (if same-file
>                        (concat "*" heading)
>                      (concat refile-file "::*" heading)))
>              (desc heading))
>         (open-line 1)
>         (insert (org-make-link-string link desc)))))
> #+end_src

Thanks a lot!  I've noticed a couple of minor issues - hopefully I'll
fix them when I get time and then maybe submit a patch.