Re: How to set org-make-link-description-function

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I don't know how to do that either. It does seem like you can set it globally. You can try something
> like:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (setq org-make-link-description-function
>       (lambda (link desc)
> (cond
> ((s-starts-with? "ebdb:uuid/" link)
>   (replace-regexp-in-string "ebdb:uuid/" "" link))
> (t
>   desc))))
> #+END_SRC
>
> It doesn't seem too ideal, as it seems like something that should get
> set in the link parameters

Right, setting it globally doesn't seem feasible at all, it would just
be clobbering left and right...