Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

> Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> writes:
>
>> The documenation on org-create-file-search-functions contains 
>> this
>> piece of text
>>
>>   A function in this hook may also use setq to set the variable
>>   description to provide a suggestion for the descriptive text 
>>   to
>>   be used for this link when it gets inserted into an Org 
>>   buffer
>>   with org-insert-link.
>>
>> This doesn't seem to be true though. I really would love for 
>> there
>> to be a way to influence the link description, but no matter 
>> what
>> the documentation should be corrected.
>>
>> For some more info look at
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/xmvtsy/orgcreatefilesearchfunctions_and_description/
>
> Thanks for reporting!
> Confirmed.
>
> This is a regression after we switched to lexical binding, and 
> after we
> removed the apparently uninitialized `description' variable from
> let-binding in `org-store-link'.
>
>     a85b4cc5c64b1eb6b97f5d7843dd54eb0632ef91
>     Author:     Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>     AuthorDate: Thu Mar 11 13:07:37 2021 -0500
>     Commit:     Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
>     CommitDate: Sun Mar 14 17:54:17 2021 -0400
>
>     Backport commit 7d0dc3183 from Emacs
>
>     ...
>     * lisp/ol.el (org-store-link):
>     Remove always-nil variable `description`.
>
> In order to make things work now with lexical binding, we need 
> to create
> a top-level defvar in ol.el, which is not nice since 
> `description'
> variable name is a bad name to define.
>
> Interestingly, this issue has not been noticed for a long time 
> and not
> many users are probably making use of it.
>
> Thus, we may as well take this opportunity and allow
> `org-create-file-search-functions' to return a cons cell
> ("search term" . "description"). This will not require 
> unintuitive
> global variables.
>
> WDYT?

I think returning a cons cell would be a very nice solution.

/M

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