* wish: facility to wash org link descriptions
@ 2018-03-02 12:16 Gregor Zattler
2018-03-02 12:43 ` Jack Henahan
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gregor Zattler @ 2018-03-02 12:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi org-mode developers,
it would be nice if there was a facility to wash (= shorten) org
link descriptions. From the users perspective this could be a
list of regular expressions with corresponding short forms.
Use case:
I want to automatically shorten org link descriptions,
especially if linking to emails. Some of this emails are from a
request tracker and have extraordinary long From: and Subject:
suffixes which add up to 49 characters in the link description.
I would like to radically shorten this boilerplate.
Even with "normal" To: and Subject:, the default formatting of
such links prefixes the correspondents name with "from " or "to ".
While it's fine with me to distinguish emails from me from
emails to emails to me, I would not need the "from ").
Ciao; Gregor
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* Re: wish: facility to wash org link descriptions
2018-03-02 12:16 wish: facility to wash org link descriptions Gregor Zattler
@ 2018-03-02 12:43 ` Jack Henahan
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From: Jack Henahan @ 2018-03-02 12:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gregor Zattler; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
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https://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-hyperlink-types.html#Adding-hyperlink-types
Adding a custom hyperlink type (or overriding the existing one for mail messages) seems like your best bet.
Jack
> On Mar 2, 2018, at 07:16, Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi org-mode developers,
>
> it would be nice if there was a facility to wash (= shorten) org
> link descriptions. From the users perspective this could be a
> list of regular expressions with corresponding short forms.
>
> Use case:
>
> I want to automatically shorten org link descriptions,
> especially if linking to emails. Some of this emails are from a
> request tracker and have extraordinary long From: and Subject:
> suffixes which add up to 49 characters in the link description.
> I would like to radically shorten this boilerplate.
>
> Even with "normal" To: and Subject:, the default formatting of
> such links prefixes the correspondents name with "from " or "to ".
> While it's fine with me to distinguish emails from me from
> emails to emails to me, I would not need the "from ").
>
>
> Ciao; Gregor
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