Link Display [WAS Recent changes: Internal linking]

Link Display [WAS Recent changes: Internal linking]

[Scott Otterson]

I really like the new internal links.   One thing I'm still missing from 
emacs-planner is the ability to display the link with the link 
destination replaced with descriptive text.

Org-mode now does this when you type [[link text][description]] and then 
export; I'd like it if org-mode did this in the normal view too.  In 
other words, if you type [[link text][description]], and then move the 
cursor off the link, you would only see "description" in your emacs 
buffer (probably in the same face used for text matched by radio links).

Scott

Re: Link Display [WAS Recent changes: Internal linking]

[Carsten Dominik]

This does work for the exporter, but not for the normal display.  I'll 
take a look to see if I can find out ow to do that.  Sounds 
interesting.

- Carsten

On Mar 26, 2006, at 19:38, Scott Otterson wrote:

> I really like the new internal links.   One thing I'm still missing 
> from emacs-planner is the ability to display the link with the link 
> destination replaced with descriptive text.
>
> Org-mode now does this when you type [[link text][description]] and 
> then export; I'd like it if org-mode did this in the normal view too.  
> In other words, if you type [[link text][description]], and then move 
> the cursor off the link, you would only see "description" in your 
> emacs buffer (probably in the same face used for text matched by radio 
> links).
>
> Scott
>
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Re: Link Display [WAS Recent changes: Internal linking]

[Carsten Dominik]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:44, Scott Otterson wrote:

> Carsten,
>
> I realized that I might have been too limited in my suggestion.  It 
> would be great if _all_ links were hideable, not just the internal 
> links.
>
> I'm finding C-c C-l very convenient for pasting in URL's -- it's just
>
> 	C-c C-l
> 	C-y
> 	<return>
>
> and, while it would be a shame to slow this down, a possible UI for 
> named links could be to add a "Description:" question after the Link: 
> question; if the user hits return without typing anything, then the 
> link would be normally displayed, with no description.
>

Yes, is is an obvious generalization.  In fact, you can already write 
something like

   [[http://www.google.com][Google Search]]

and the exporter will do the right thing.  So yes, If hideable links 
are implemented for internal links, this will automatically also work 
for external links.

- Carsten