Re: org-refile failed due to default option stored by org-goto

[Maxim Nikulin]

On 05/03/2021 05:53, Samuel Wales wrote:
> diff --git a/lisp/org-refile.el b/lisp/org-refile.el
> index 1e6872b46..8f98e9cf9 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-refile.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-refile.el
> @@ -617,7 +617,9 @@ this function appends the default value from
>          (tbl (mapcar
>                (lambda (x)
>                  (if (and (not (member org-refile-use-outline-path
> -                                      '(file full-file-path)))
> +                                       ;; === alpha remove the parens
> from ido completion of olpaths
> +                                      '(nil full-file-path)))
> +                                      ;; '(file full-file-path)))
>                           (not (equal filename (nth 1 x))))
>                      (cons (concat (car x) extra " ("
>                                    (file-name-nondirectory (nth 1 x)) ")")

The patch changes appearance of "(file.org)" at the end of each 
completion option. I do not know value of your 
org-refile-use-outline-path setting so I am unsure if your are trying to 
avoid it or vice versa to force it.

I do not think that the patch is relevant to sharing of default option 
between org-goto and org-refile. I think, buffer (or file) name should 
be stored separately from outline path within the buffer in org-refile 
history and merged accordingly to current settings just before 
completing-read. org-refile-cache likely requires a similar approach.

Personally I was confused by behavior of (org-refile-use-outline-path 
t). Completion options appears as "A (file.org)", "A/B (file.org)", and 
I could not figure out how to refile directly to "A" headings. I suspect 
that org-refile-allow-creating-parent-nodes does not work with "t" at 
all. Recently I have realized that after typing of "A/B" TAB completes 
option to "A/B (file.org)" and I was trying RET after "A". It is 
necessary to add space "A " to refile to a non-leaf node.

That was the reason why I set (org-refile-use-outline-path 'file). 
Completion options appears as "file.org/A/B". I have to press TAB at 
first to get "file.org/" but then after "file.org/A" RET works fine.