Re: Feature request: IDs for everything

[Ihor Radchenko]

Tor Erlend Fjelde <tor.github@gmail.com> writes:

>> As an alternative option, we had a proposal that extends id: links to
>> have a search option:
>>
>>  [[id:<ID>::search-string]]
> ...
> Indeed; I was actually about to have a go at implementing this because
> I thought this would be the quickest way of adding support for referencing
> blocks in something like org-roam. But this does seem like a sub-optimal
> solution vs. just adding support for more general IDs, and so I thought
> it would be better to see if that could be done first (hence I'm here).

FYI, we added [[id:<ID>::search-string]] links to the latest development
version of Org mode. This new feature does not cover global ids for
non-headings though.

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