can capture create search links?

can capture create search links?

[Samuel Wales]

i capture using %a.

from org, %a results in a file link with a pathname and a search
within that file.  if i then refile the target to a new file, the link
is broken.  but even if %a created a search link, it would search
within only that file, so refiling to a new file would break the link.

what i'd like is for capture to produce a link that, when clicked,
will search through my agenda files and text search extra files for a
matching header.

is this possible?

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can capture create search links?

[Julius Dittmar]

Hi Samuel,

as to org I only have user status, so there may be better solutions for you.

Am 29.09.18 um 00:20 schrieb Samuel Wales:
> what i'd like is for capture to produce a link that, when clicked,
> will search through my agenda files and text search extra files for a
> matching header.

I use IDs for that purpose.
In my config file I added

(require 'org-id)
(setq org-id-link-to-org-use-id 'create-if-interactive-and-no-custom-id)

In all capture templates, IDs are automatically added by adding,
immediately after the heading and a possible scheduling line,
":PROPERTIES:\n:ID: %(org-id-new)\n:END:\n" within the template string.

With this, %a in the template string is replaced by that ID if the ID
exists. The ID survives refiling.

Hope that helps,

Julius

Re: can capture create search links?

[Samuel Wales]

hi j,

thanks for commenting.

i use org-id extensively.

however, if i am just capturing a note on an org entry that does not
already have an org-id, i want the link so that i have context for
what i am talking about, but i do not want to create an org-id.

org-id for this purpose would clutter org too much, as it would create
an org-id for every tiny little teensy org entry.

that is why i want %a [or something similar] to create a search link
for the header text, which searches all agenda files and text search
extra files [not just the current file].

that would give me the context i need, with a mostly-unbreakable link
[i don't need perfection in this case], that tells me where i was when
i made the note.

although i use org-id extensively, i don't want to use org-id for this.

samuel