On 06/09/2022 21:34, Max Nikulin wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have an idea why it was necessary to drop completion of 
> stored links based on their description for the sake of ido?

I have no idea what is the proper way to enable ido for 
`org-insert-link'. Functions and variables specific to ido were removed 
from Org.
(ido-everywhere) and (ido-mode) are not enough.

I tried

     (setq-local completing-read-function #'ido-completing-read)

and the command broke completing read completely.

     (add-function :override completing-read-function #'ido-completing-read)

inspired by `ido-everywhere' code broke M-x, but it enabled ido for 
`org-insert-link'.

I believe that descriptions as completion options were removed because 
ido signals an error when nil is passed inside completion list. I 
consider it as a bug in ido (at least in Emacs-27), but even when 
`completing-read-default' is used, it causes appearance of undesired 
"nil" option. No description is a frequent case for links.

So I am attaching a patch to restore completion of link targets by their 
description, nil descriptions are filtered out.

The change is caused by the auto-desc local variable in 
`org-insert-link', its usage is rather strange and confusing currently. 
  Despite with this patch descriptions are restored, I believe that 
logic related to auto-desc should be removed, anyway it was broken for 
10 years. I am unsure in which thread the next change should be discussed.

> P.S. My question is related to the following threads:
> - Carlos Pita. Adding target and custom id links doesn't ask for 
> description. Tue, 2 Aug 2022 14:44:58 -0300. 
> https://list.orgmode.org/D99A712C-18D1-4A4F-8093-35A0BFB469C4@gmail.com
> - Max Nikulin. Re: Bug: org-store-link uses CUSTOM_ID instead of target 
> point. Sat, 6 Nov 2021 19:51:29 +0700. 
> https://list.orgmode.org/e2c807a7-1924-6f08-9e63-4f70aee9d3b5@gmail.com