Re: link description <-- selected text?

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

I have implemented this behavior, thanks.
It has the side effect that the selected text is removed from the 
buffer,
even if you change the offered default description, but I guess this is 
ok.

- Carsten

On Jan 14, 2007, at 18:51, Scott Otterson wrote:

> Here's a feature request:  If text is selected when the create link 
> command is invoked (C-c C-l), then the selected text becomes the 
> default contents for the link description mini-buffer.  If no text is 
> selected, the description mini-buffer is blank, as it is now.
>
> This would reduce substantially keystrokes for my usual style of 
> editing, which is to first type in the outline text and then to go 
> back and sprinkle it with links to references (to websites, bib 
> entries, lines of code...).  For example, suppose I have written this 
> sentence:
>
>    "Implement the RLS algorithm"
>
> And, suppose I've already stored a link to an RLS paper by typing C-l 
> in in my bib file.  Then, while in the outline buffer, I'd like to be 
> able to select the text "RLS algorithm", and then hit:
>
>    C-c C-l  (creates link minibuffer)
>    <enter>  (enters stored link)
>    <enter>  (enters selected text as link description)
>
> As soon as it occurred to me that this would make org-mode more 
> efficient, I realized that this is how other standard programs already 
> handle html references; I'd guess that many would already be familiar 
> with this small change in org-mode behavior.
>
> Thanks for all the good work,
>
> Scott
>
>
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Carsten Dominik
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