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From: Paul Sexton <psexton@xnet.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Org-ctags released
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:04:34 +0000 (UTC)
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Xavier Maillard <xma <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 
> Le 23/12/2009 23:36, Paul Sexton a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > I have rewritten org-ctags, a package which allows org mode to use
 Emacs "tags"
> > to seamlessly navigate to link targets in other org files (as
 well as source
> > code files etc). See below for more of an explanation.
> 
> Awesome idea ! But why a patch for org.el ?
> 
> Xavier
> 

Because there is no other way to alter how org deals with missing plain 
links. The only alternative to the patch is redefining some very important 
org functions in org-ctags.el, which is not a good idea.