Refiling Completion Systems

Refiling Completion Systems

[Bernt Hansen]

Hi,

I've been using org-mode for over ten years and at some point the ido
completion for refiling went away -- probably when refiling functionalty
was rewritten.  Is there a similar completion system available that I
can use to locate my refile targets?  I really liked the ido search with
incremental search refinement (C-SPC) of IDO to limit my targets until I
find the one I want.

I'm currently using

(setq org-refile-use-outline-path t)

but that isn't really working well when I don't remember the parent task
heading :)

I am currently using Org on Windows.

GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-09-17
Org mode version 9.2.1 (release_9.2.1-195-gef1edf @ c:/D-Drive/bin/org-mode/lisp/)

Thanks for Org!

Best regards,
Bernt

Re: Refiling Completion Systems

[John Kitchin]

You might look into using ivy or helm for completion. You can turn on
ivy-mode, for example and it redfines all the completing-read type
functions in Emacs so that it all uses the ivy way to do it. They are
kind of similar, but have some different philosophies and key-binding
approaches. I found helm first, and liked it, but over time have drifted
to ivy for almost everything.

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using org-mode for over ten years and at some point the ido
> completion for refiling went away -- probably when refiling functionalty
> was rewritten.  Is there a similar completion system available that I
> can use to locate my refile targets?  I really liked the ido search with
> incremental search refinement (C-SPC) of IDO to limit my targets until I
> find the one I want.
>
> I'm currently using
>
> (setq org-refile-use-outline-path t)
>
> but that isn't really working well when I don't remember the parent task
> heading :)
>
> I am currently using Org on Windows.
>
> GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-09-17
> Org mode version 9.2.1 (release_9.2.1-195-gef1edf @ c:/D-Drive/bin/org-mode/lisp/)
>
> Thanks for Org!
>
> Best regards,
> Bernt


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Re: Refiling Completion Systems

[Samuel Wales]

the built-in ido completion is likely mostly redundant and that is i
think mostly why it was removed.  [ooh, disclaimers.]

to get your ido back, you can install ido-hacks, which will

  1] make ido work in all sorts of places including refile
  2] speed up ido by an enormous amount

you might need to make sure you have the right version.

there is also something like ido-everywhere, but idk if it has the
speeding up feature or whether it does ido in the same places.

alternatively, you can try helm [old, huge, different usage] or ivy
[new, fast].  icicles is not as popular.

i think both helm and ivy have c-spc ability or the equivalent.

ivy is the most like ido of the popular non-ido.

===

i use ido with ido-hacks and ido-clever-match.  the last one sorts
choices beautifully.  i get annoyed with different sort orders.

i might switch to ivy in the future if it can provide the same sort
order as ido-clever-match.  it provides options, but not that one.

it has been said that flx is a nice sorting option and that ivy can
provide it, but it was too slow last time i tried it.  idk if ivy
speeds flx up.  idk if it is close enough to ido-clever-match for me.


On 2/8/19, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using org-mode for over ten years and at some point the ido
> completion for refiling went away -- probably when refiling functionalty
> was rewritten.  Is there a similar completion system available that I
> can use to locate my refile targets?  I really liked the ido search with
> incremental search refinement (C-SPC) of IDO to limit my targets until I
> find the one I want.
>
> I'm currently using
>
> (setq org-refile-use-outline-path t)
>
> but that isn't really working well when I don't remember the parent task
> heading :)
>
> I am currently using Org on Windows.
>
> GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-09-17
> Org mode version 9.2.1 (release_9.2.1-195-gef1edf @
> c:/D-Drive/bin/org-mode/lisp/)
>
> Thanks for Org!
>
> Best regards,
> Bernt
>
>


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Re: Refiling Completion Systems

[Detlef Steuer]

Am Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:34:17 -0700
schrieb Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>:

> i use ido with ido-hacks and ido-clever-match.  the last one sorts
> choices beautifully. 

Would it be possible to see your config?
Such a headstart would be fine!

Detlef