Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > Within my personal productivity system that I've implemented using org, I > > used a main heading like this: > > > > * tags :one:two:three:... > > > > I use this in order to match a reference org file to other data that I > > have throughout my system, and it works great when I want to find all > > related information with a specific tag from the CLI by using ack or grep. > > This helps keeping things more organic, in the sense that I > > don't have to think too much when capturing reference data (it can be a > > headline somewhere, or just a new org file in /refernece, important thing > > is that it has the proper semantics - i.e tags), but at the same time with > > enough structure to be useful. I could probably use > > another notation, but that's the one I chose first, and all my reference > > files have it. > > > > A problem I'm having however is that everytime I go to such org files and > > try to get a link to this file using C l, it creates a link to * tags. I > > then have to hit enter so that it brakes and creates a blank line in the > > top. > > > > Is there a way to always force copying a link *to the file*, instead of > > org trying to create a link to an item inside the file? > > > > There is also a more permanent solution:
... that is, in addition to the C-u C-c l method that I sent to Marcelo without copying the list. Apologies. Nick > > ,---- > | org-context-in-file-links is a variable defined in `org.el'. > | Its value is t > | > | Documentation: > | Non-nil means file links from `org-store-link' contain context. > | A search string will be added to the file name with :: as separator and > | used to find the context when the link is activated by the command > | `org-open-at-point'. When this option is t, the entire active region > | will be placed in the search string of the file link. If set to a > | positive integer, only the first n lines of context will be stored. > | > | Using a prefix arg to the command C-c l (`org-store-link') > | negates this setting for the duration of the command. > | > | You can customize this variable. > | > `---- >
