Re: HTML Export of Links to Source Blocks seems broken

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

timor <timor.dd@gmail.com> writes:

> The thing is, I have a lot of code blocks that define functions, which
> are named exactly after that function.  And as I frequently want to
> reference one of those in the text, I don't want to say
>
>     [[test_fun][test_fun]] ..
> [[another_long_function][another_long_function]]...
>
> everytime, since [[test_fun]] already contains all the information
> needed to generate the link, and the description.  The description is
> always the same as the link target.  That is why I would want to
> change the way that the default link description is generated in the
> case that none is provided.

You can use a hook, which will work at the Org level, or a filter, to
work at the HTML level. See, e.g., (info "(org) Advanced configuration").

> I think that would make sense, given that the way the default
> description is generated at the moment does not seem to provide any
> benefit.

It does, but not in your example. See (info "(org) Internal links") for
details.

Regards,