Re: getting org-goto to work with ido

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hi Samuel,

On Nov 25, 2008, at 9:07 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:59, Carsten Dominik  
> <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>> (setq org-outline-path-complete-in-steps nil)
>>
>> Then targets for org-goto will still be identified by their entire
>> path, in this way removing disambiguates,  but you can then use
>> single-step completion to match the entire path, using ido if you  
>> wish.
>
> Kind of like uniquify?



Well, not quite.  Uniquify does only prepend the path
if necessary - what I have implemented always has the
complete path.  I agree that a uniquify approach might
be nice as well.

> I don't have git, but if this is what I think you mean, then I had the
> same idea, except for a different reason.
>
> Let's say you have housing/environment/filters and
> food/coffee/filters.  And also 10 more.  You type "fil" and there are
> 15 candidates.  To select the coffee one, you type c-spc then "cof".
> In other words, I wanted to do the headline first then the path.

I just tried (I did not know about C-SPC in ido, great feature),
and this works just fine.

However, my standard way to work is to just type a substring
and then use C-s to cycle through the possibilities.  But I
might make more use of C-SPC, like the idea.

> An improvement would be to put the path *after* the headline (in
> reverse order like filters\coffee\food; see uniquify for code and to
> make the syntax consistent).  Then c-spc would not be necessary.  You
> would type "filcof".  If that is not enough to disambiguate, then
> "fo".
> No backtracking necessary.
>
> Then the minibuffer can show tersely if desired.  filters\coffee,
> filters\environment.  Or just enough to be unique.


It does show the full path right now, which can be long, of course.

> If that's what you mean, then we have a winner.

I do like it a lot, but I think I should make a more
terse list with uniquify.  Maybe there is some emacs/uniquify code I  
can reuse....

- Carsten

>
>
> But is it fast in CPU time to gather the headlines this way?
> :maxlevel isn't necessary?
>
>> Wow, this is *really* fast.
>
> Yeah.
>
>> Maybe I should start by setting the default for org-goto-interface to
>> outline-path-completion.
>> Any thoughts about such a change?
>
> Maybe depends on CPU time on large files and what you set the ido
> default to.  Of course, ido has limits you can set also.  I presume
> emacs and xemacs both have ido.
>
> I would use it.
>
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