Problem with internal links

Troubleshooting
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Hello,
perhaps I am doing something wrong… But I don’t know how to do internal links in one org-roam document. According to https://orgmode.org/manual/Internal-Links.html and as far as I understand:

  • I set “#+name: fig:new-image” for one image.
  • I create the link “[[fig:new-image]]”
  • When I click on the link, instead of moving to the image location inside the file, the “org-roam-capture” function is called.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Regards,

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I can confirm this behaviour. Internal links to named locations, e.g. figures, tables, source code blocks with #+name: header, do not work. It is a bug. Please check if it has already been reported. Otherwise you can report it yourself.

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Radio targets are also bugged.

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Org-roam replaces fuzzy link behaviour entirely. I’ll add a switch to turn it off.

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I wonder if a better solution is to somehow wrap orgs default handling of them? e.g. On a fuzzy link first let org check if there is an appropriate target (a #+name or a radio target etc.), if there isn’t a valid org link target org roam handles the link.

You could then maybe have an option with three settings

  • Only have org handle fuzzy links
  • Only have org roam handle fuzzy links
  • Have org search for targets, then org roam search for targets

I haven’t dug into the internals of how org handles fuzzy links so I’m not sure how feasible this is

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Hello,

I created the bug report https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/issues/1098

Feel free to add your comments and suggestions. Regards!

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That was also the first thing that came into my mind. A switch option, perhaps with an interactive toggle command, is easier to implement quickly.

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From my preliminary investigation it’s not easy to wrap the behaviour of Org here. Org calls hooks in org-open-link-functions early with the string path, instead of the full link. Without knowing the type of the link (radio, fuzzy etc.) I cannot replicate Org’s behaviour.

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