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I had this once upon a time but I have misplaced the bit that did it. In an arbitrary file at point I want to make an external file orgmode link that sticks around long enough to paste elsewhere. I am sure someone did this before as I used to have it. But alas, I have misplaced it.

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    You don't mean org-store-link, org-insert-link? What do you mean by link that sticks around long enough to paste elsewhere?
    – theldoria
    Dec 1, 2016 at 22:06
  • Exactly. I had such a thing once upon a time that I saw on one such emacs list as this. But I have misplaced it. One command created the link at the point in the file where my cursor was. Then I would move to my org file to paste it in and be prompted to chose which with the default being the most recent. I would get a prompt to give it a label (second part of mypellink).
    – Samantha Atkins
    Dec 14, 2016 at 2:42

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Use org-store-link to store the position of your current emacs buffer file and in your org file org-insert-link to insert the stored link. This prompts you with a selection of links and a query for the description to insert.

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  • It is often recommended to bind org-store-link to C-c l, since org-insert-link is bound to C-c C-l by default.
    – Erik Sjöstrand
    Dec 14, 2016 at 9:34
  • Thanks! And here I was thinking it was more complicated.
    – Samantha Atkins
    Dec 17, 2016 at 11:32

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