Re: org-ctags-find-tag should not prompt inside org-open-at-point

[Ihor Radchenko]

Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in> writes:

> When org-ctags-find-tag is a member of org-open-link-functions, fuzzy
> links and custom-id links are broken. Instead of following those links,
> Emacs prompts for a filename with "Visit tags table (default TAGS)".

This is expected. As per org-ctags documentation:

;; By default, with org-ctags loaded, org will first try and visit the tag
;; with the same name as the link; then, if unsuccessful, ask the user if
;; he/she wants to rebuild the 'TAGS' database and try again; then ask if
;; the user wishes to append 'tag' as a new toplevel heading at the end of
;; the buffer; and finally, defer to org's default behavior which is to
;; search the entire text of the current buffer for 'tag'.
;;
;; This behavior can be modified by changing the value of
;; ORG-CTAGS-OPEN-LINK-FUNCTIONS.

> I'm sure how org-ctags is getting required in my Emacs, but I think
> (require 'org-ctags) probably shouldn't call org-ctags-enable.

Check out
https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87o7omg4ie.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com/

We generally agree that (require 'org-ctags) should ideally not have
side effects, but do not want to introduce too breaking changes either.

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