@mano: was it ever working?
idk. Iāve been changing heading willy-nilly thinking it 
it doesnāt matter, and now I have a bunch of broken links
Itās weird that you can change a block reference and it still works, but not the heading. I think the block reference is a more āproā feature than a headingā¦
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@mano: with a heading reference you link to the # heading, so making a change to # heading will affect the link.
With a block reference you link to that tiny ^number, which is not affected by a change in the text of the block. If you were to change that tiny ^number youād find the link is broken too.
AFAIK auto-update links to headers has never worked because it has not been implemented, but it is supposed to be one day, though I donāt know when.
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@Klaas: what I mean is that you can change the ^number for a block reference and the link still works fine.
I document it here
edit: I misunderstood this feature.
I sometimes assign meaningful block reference codes for blocks I know Iāll reference elsewhere (as I have done in the example I have linked). Itās pretty useful.
@mano: you state
you can change the
^numberfor a block reference and the link still works fine.
I donāt understand that. If you link to a block you reference its ^number, so how can the link continue to work if you change that number when Licat himself has said that changing header and block links still needs to be fixed?
As for you other show case re block references via block quotes, all I picked up is that you use your own āmeaningful reference stringā, which is fine, but surely if you were to change that string the link would be broken?
This is a feature Iām very interested in as well.
Request
- Create a block reference (or header reference) in Document A
- Write document B
- Create a block reference from Doc A to Doc B with a random ID
^8d8763f - Update the Block-ID
^8d8763fto^meaningful-textin Doc B - The block reference in Doc A will automatically update to
^meaningful-text
- I would also like these
^block-idsto survive/update when moving them between files
Reason
While updating file names is lovely, sometimes I need a file to be a long list of, say, academic journal abstracts that I add to over time, and rearrange. I donāt want all abstracts in different files, but I do want to refer to specific abstracts. It would be very helpful if these references could update as well as the file names.
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yeah, I am sorry, it doesnāt work the way I said it did. I canāt recall why I had that impression!
Iāll correct my original comment
Any news about that? This is a key feature to avoid inadvertently destroying important links. The same thing should be done for blocks as well.
Really important feature. Hope it gets some love sooner rather than later.
+1 from me as well.
Also very important for me! Today I tried to update a h1 link manually and deleted a whole file by accidentā¦
+1 from me too.
Iād like to see this applied to any and all level of links ā including block level since custom names are supported, meaning they may change at the userās whims. I also mentioned this feature here.
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I just had a broken link because the heading was changed. After that I found this topic. Thanks for making this feature request.
Dear @WhiteNoise, any news on when this might be worked on or even implemented? I just saw itās already on the roadmap, which made me quite happy.
As there are āonlyā five goals on the roadmap, I intuitively thought that it will be available in the foreseeable future. But as it is listed under ālong termā I am unsure if that is a euphemism or a broader but still measurable timeframe.
Could you please share your estimate?
I am sorry, no estimates. It will happen.
Another vote to implement this, please!
+1 for this feature!
+1 from me for this too
Leaving my humble +1 for this great feature
hello is the last update supose to fix it ? Because it is still not working.
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-12-15-insider-build/23348