On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:14:20PM +0200, Christian Barthel wrote: [...]
> > But only whithin one file, I gather. > > No, I don’t think so. I copied an ID from one item of todo.org > into todo_2025.org and this is what the *Messages* buffer says: Ugh. This sounds potentially expensive. [...] > > See, it is complicated [...] > Yes, I think there is an option that deals with duplicating > templates. See ‘org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift’ where you can > specify to delete the ID. Or it does it automatically... I don’t > remember [...] You conveniently left out the case where you *do want* the duplication :) [...] > Yes - manually copying an UUID results into a non-unique UUID . ...a non-unique UUID -- a philosophical monster 8-) I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that UUIDs are not magical per se -- sometimes they are useful, sometimes not. I know it's popular here, but to me, for the sake of "marking" positions in documents, they are more hassle than they are worth. I prefer to locate by content/context. Cheers -- t
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