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Re: [O] Should a human ever set the ID property? Should a human only eve


From: Grant Rettke
Subject: Re: [O] Should a human ever set the ID property? Should a human only ever set the CUSTOM_ID property?
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 10:43:55 -0500

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> My understanding (and I may be grokking things *incorrectly* here) is
> that CUSTOM_ID is mostly useful when you expect to be to be typing the
> ID itself (ie when linking to a headline), or when it's otherwise
> important that the text of the ID be some precise string, and not a
> random string.
>
> If all you want to do is ensure that all headlines have an ID, I would
> assume that the regular built-in functions would do the trick just fine.
>
> Lots of assumptions there!

Thank you Eric. Agreed. For my use case, they are perfect. If I want
to change them, too, I can change them in the document itself.
CUSTOM_ID seems to be used more for links and capturing.



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