Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and what in fact did happen. You don't know how to make a good report? See
https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback Your bug report will be posted to the Org mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** what happened when running org-id-find-id-in-file on an id and an unvisited file, the buffer it creates to visit file isn't closed after finding id. ** what should have happened I was expecting it to close the buffer if the file wasn't already visited by another buffer. Is this desired behavior? ** background info and possible fix I stumbled on this while looking at an issue with org-roam at https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/issues/1129. For now a guard clause like the following in the calling function closes the buffer if need be. (let (file-already-open-p return-val) (setq file-already-open-p (find-buffer-visiting file)) (setq return-val (org-id-find-id-in-file id file markerp)) (unless file-already-open-p (kill-buffer (find-buffer-visiting file))) (print return-val)) This logic can be propagated to the function to squash this possible bug. Emacs : GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.22, cairo version 1.17.3) of 2020-08-20 Package: Org mode version 9.4 (9.4-7-g3eccc5-elpaplus @ ~/spacemacs/elpa/develop/org-plus-contrib-20200921/)