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How can I follow org links in the current buffer using ivy? This is similar functionality to m (M-x Info-menu) in info with ivy/counsel installed.

The command should list with ivy everything that org considers a link in the current buffer, and when a link is selected, it should navigate there.

Primarily I want to use this for internal navigation in org-roam, not for browsing to web links. I'm aware that org-roam has its own link navigation functions that uses the org-roam sqlite database, but I want a shorter list of candidates: just those in the current file. When I have something like this, I imagine tweaking it to work for the org-roam backlinks buffer also, but the focus of this question is the general question for org, not org-roam in particular.

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  • So you want a function that produces the list of links in the current file?
    – NickD
    Mar 10, 2021 at 13:58
  • Produces that list of links and hooks that up to ivy, yes
    – Croad Langshan
    Mar 11, 2021 at 12:35

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You might leverage what org-roam does and write a function with a more limited query that gets the current buffer-file-name and limits result by that.

Alternatively, here is an independent approach that might work for you.

(defun follow-buffer-link ()
  (interactive)
  (ivy-read "Link: " (org-element-map (org-element-parse-buffer) 'link
               (lambda (lnk)
             (list (org-element-property :raw-link lnk) lnk)))
        :action (lambda (candidate)
              (save-excursion
            (goto-char (org-element-property :begin (second candidate)))
            (org-open-at-point)))))
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