Re: what is the purpose of "This link has already been stored"?

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

or to [/mere brainstorm alert/] get really fancy, to be able to mark a
place where links are to be inserted [perhas to become a plain list or
so] then collect llinks from all over, then hit store and they all go
to the place you marked.  crash-proof.


On 6/29/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> although i just store and insert now, i'd also welcome the ability to
> collect links from various places and have them someplace like a
> register where they can be pasted all at once.  or even edit the list
> in the register, clear it, etc.
>
>
> On 6/29/23, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
>> Anthony Carrico <acarrico@memebeam.org> writes:
>>
>>>> Makes sense. It is a +1 for a defcustom.
>>>> Although I still believe that we should change the current default,
>>>> even
>>>> if leaving an option to fall back to previous behaviour.
>>>
>>> I don't think there is much reason to complicate the interface with a
>>> defcustom. The current default is an error, so changing the default
>>> doesn't break the workflow of anyone using it the way Samuel describes
>>> (unless I'm missing something).
>>
>> What Samuel described is a sequence of M-x org-store-link followed by
>> M-x org-insert-all-links. With such workflow, user can expect that the
>> links are going to be stored in order. If we are instead shuffle the
>> stored links, M-x org-insert-all-links may result in unexpected
>> behaviour.
>>
>> Currently, when link to place is already stored, not error is thrown, a
>> message is displayed, no link is stored, and the stored link list is not
>> altered.
>>
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