Hi all,
the following function has served me well for a few years, so I thought
I'd share it. I would even be happy to contribute it to the codebase of
org-mode (core or contrib); however in this case someone would have to
point me to a fool-proof guide for how to do this. I know that for
contributing code I will have to sign some FSF copyright forms, and I
know how to use git, but I don't know the exact org-mode specific steps
of doing so.
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(defun org-jump-to-id ()
"Asks for an identifier and searches for the first entry in the
current file that has this identifier as a CUSTOM_ID property."
(interactive)
(let* ((property "CUSTOM_ID")
(custom-id (org-icompleting-read "CUSTOM_ID of entry: "
(mapcar 'list
(org-property-values property)))))
(org-link-search (concat "#" custom-id))))
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "\C-cj") 'org-jump-to-id)
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This implementation works efficiently in a 4 MB org file with 100 IDs.
Together with ido or helm I find it a very user-friendly way of jumping
to frequently used headlines.
I noticed that org-babel-ref-goto-headline-id does something similar, so
maybe some code could be shared among the two functions.
Cheers,
Christoph
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