Re: Link "bracket-types"

[Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>]

Hi Nicolas

Thank you for looking into this.

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Nicolas Goaziou
<mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> Just move the mouse over them. A tooltip or the minibuffer will display
> what the link is really.

During my use case I don't care what URL the link opens. I want to
know if there are brackets and even better when I know whether they
are case 1 or 3/4.

> True. This limitation is a feature. You cannot have parenthesis in plain
> links even though they are technically allowed in URL.
>
> However, you could also use angle brackets.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(higher-order_function)>
>
> The advantage on angle brackets is that they make it clear there is no
> description attached to the link, i.e., the brackets are visible when
> fontified). You can also use angle brackets for a more prominent visual
> clue.

Good to know, I didn't (or forgot?).

> I'm not sure to understand the problem you want to solve. What is
> important is if the displayed part of a link is a description or the URL
> itself, i.e., case 1. This is solved by hovering the mouse above the
> link. The other cases are equivalent, barring the limitation from case
> 2.

My use case is different, see above, and I don't like to move point or
mouse for my use case. I would like to have a visual indication like
with org-descriptive-links nil which leads to this thought:

Probably better than more faces would be to render case 1 like with
org-descriptive-links t and case 3/4 like with org-descriptive-links
nil. What would be the recommended way to do this? Could that become a
new value beside the current t and nil for org-descriptive-links?

Michael