<<Targets>> and <<<radio targets>>> are great for ensuring that internal
hyperlinks go to the right place in your org document. The problem with
them, though, is that they clutter up the text, making it less readable.
Attempts to get around this problem cause more problems. For example, to
avoid the clutter, I often end up making a target below a headline that is
an exact copy of the headline text, like this:
* Correlation
* Mutual Information
<<Mutual Information>>
*** parametric
*** non-parametric
* Correntropy
When the top headlines are collapsed, the above looks like:
* Correlation
* Mutual Information
* Correntropy
This is cleaner than putting the target in the headline, which would look
like this when collapsed:
* Correlation
* <<Mutual Information>>
* Correntropy
However, my redundant headline target is a maintenance mess (if you change
the headline, you need to remember to change the target) and when the
headline is expanded, things are even more cluttered.
So, here's my feature request: Hide the target angle brackets in the same
way that square brackets are hidden for hyperlinks. In other words,
<<targets>> or <<<radio targets>>>
should be displayed as
targets and radio targets
where a unique font tells you that they are targets. The hidden angle
brackets could be exposed by hitting delete when at the right side of the
target (similar to how hidden hyperlink text is exposed now).
Code already exists to to do exactly this for [[hyperlinks]], and I thought
that it would be easy to reuse it for hiding <<targets>>. But after
several hours of digging around, I realized that this is a job for the
experts. Is anyone interested in taking it on? I think it would be a big
improvement.
Thanks everybody for all the excellent work on org-mode!
Scott
