Re: Question: org-remember and level>1 target headline

[Martin Pohlack <mp26@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>]

Hi,

interest in this problem was indicated to me in private mail, so let my
sum up my findings so far.

I walked through the code in org-remember.el:org-remember-handler.

There seems to be no support for path traversal for the non-interactive
case.  The first headline matching is found regardless of its depth.

I now use the following structure for my plan files:

* Inbox
*** Inbox:host1
*** Inbox:host2
*** Inbox:host3

I use these two functions for computing the current target headline:

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(defun my-host-name ()
  "Returns the name of the current host minus the domain."
  (let ((hostname (downcase (system-name))))
    (save-match-data
      (substring hostname (string-match "^[^.]+" hostname)
                          (match-end 0)))))

(defun my-org-remember-headline ()
  (concatenate 'string "Inbox:" (my-host-name)))
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In one of the interactive paths in org-remember-handler, org-refile
infrastructure is used for inquiring a target from the user.  When
refiling, "/" in headline names are replaced with "\".  Verbatim "\" in
headlines are also presented as "\".  That means that "test/test" and
"test\test" cannot be distinguished for refiling.

Is there a specification of what are valid characters in a headline?

Is there interest to define remember targets via paths or via ID?

Cheers,
Martin