Org-mode is a fantastic way to organise information in simple text files. I often use internal links to other sections in a document for navigation, but I’ve found that there is not a great mechanism to quickly insert an internal link. I wanted an interface that would provide me a list of headlines in the document that I could use to select a link target, so I put together the functions below.
These simple functions leverage the fantastic ivy and worf packages, so install them first. Then put the code below into your emacs config file. Then, invoking M-x bjm/worf-insert-internal-link provides an ivy completion interface for the list of headlines in the document. Once you select the headline you want as the link target, the link is inserted for you.
;; use ivy to insert a link to a heading in the current document ;; based on `worf-goto` (defun bjm/worf-insert-internal-link () "Use ivy to insert a link to a heading in the current `org-mode' document. Code is based on `worf-goto'." (interactive) (let ((cands (worf--goto-candidates))) (ivy-read "Heading: " cands :action 'bjm/worf-insert-internal-link-action))) (defun bjm/worf-insert-internal-link-action (x) "Insert link for `bjm/worf-insert-internal-link'" ;; go to heading (save-excursion (goto-char (cdr x)) ;; store link (call-interactively 'org-store-link) ) ;; return to original point and insert link (org-insert-last-stored-link 1) ;; org-insert-last-stored-link adds a newline so delete this (delete-backward-char 1) )
