Re: [PATCH] Export of irc links in ox-html

[Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com>]

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Hi Nicolas,

> Would you mind providing an ORG-NEWS entry about it?

I need to stop forgetting to do this :).

I've attached a patch which adds an entry to the 'Miscellaneous'
section. Please let me know if you think anything is wrong with it.

-Jay


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From e321f926217460a506d6536ad494b1f25c247c4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 21:30:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ORG-NEWS: Add an entry for supporting export in org-irc.el

---
 etc/ORG-NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/ORG-NEWS b/etc/ORG-NEWS
index d2fb264b18..7c69efa89d 100644
--- a/etc/ORG-NEWS
+++ b/etc/ORG-NEWS
@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@ you should expect to see something like:
 ** Miscellaneous
 
 *** ~org-publish-resolve-external-link~ accepts a new optional argument.
+*** ~org-irc.el~ now supports exporting =irc:= links properly
+
+Previously, irc links were exported by ~ox-md~ and ~ox-html~ as normal
+file links, which lead to them being broken in web browsers. Now both
+of these exporters will properly export to =irc:= links, which will
+open properly in irc clients from web browsers.
 
 * Version 9.1
 
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