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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: unlinking links
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:07:53 +0100
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Hello,

Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 08:30:08PM -0500, John Kitchin wrote:
>> Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org> writes:
>> > Is it just me or is there no quick way to remove the link from some
>> > hyperlinked text? If so, please consider this a feature request ;-)
>> 
>> Try this:
>> 
>> (defun unlinkify ()
>>   "replace an org-link with the path, or description."
>>   (interactive)
>>   (let ((eop (org-element-context)))
>>     (when (eq 'link (car eop))

(when (eq (org-element-type eop) 'link)

>> (message "%s" eop)
>>       (let* ((start (org-element-property :begin eop))
>> 	     (end (org-element-property :end eop))
>> 	     (contents-begin (org-element-property :contents-begin eop))
>> 	     (contents-end (org-element-property :contents-end eop))
>> 	     (path (org-element-property :path eop))
>> 	     (desc (and contents-begin
>> 			contents-end
>> 			(buffer-substring contents-begin contents-end))))
>> 	(setf (buffer-substring start end) (or desc path))))))
>
> Thanks, that worked great!  Can I suggest you submit this for
> inclusion in org itself? :-)  I guess it would need to be called
> `org-unlinkify'.

FWIW, I don't think it is useful enough for inclusion in core. It could
go in Worg however.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou