imag/bin/core/imag-link
Matthias Beyer f1a639ea8c Change id reporting API to return ExitCode
Because this API only errors when write!() errors occur, we can return
the exit code as an error here.

This way the user of the API can immediately exit if there was an IO
error, but the API automatically takes care of the right return value,
returning (exiting) with zero (0) if there was an "Broken pipe" error
and with one (1) otherwise, which is the expected behaviour here.

All calls to that API were changed accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
2019-02-11 03:22:56 +01:00
..
src Change id reporting API to return ExitCode 2019-02-11 03:22:56 +01:00
Cargo.toml Update version strings 2018-11-10 11:56:37 +01:00
README.md Fix broken README symlinks 2017-08-27 15:13:25 +02:00

The linking module imag-link is one of the plumbing modules. It offers the possibility to link entries in the store.

It also offers the functionality to link to external sources. This functionality can be used to link to external URLs, but the bookmarking module should be used to do this (see @sec:modules:bookmarks).

The linking module offers functionality to add, remove and list both internal (store entry to store entry) and external (store entry to URL) links.

Internal linking

External linking

A store entry can only have one external link. Therefor, when you create an external link, the linking module creates a new entry in the store which links to this URL. The linking module then links you entry with this new entry by using an internal link. This way one entry can have multiple external links attached to it and external links are deduplicated automatically.