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From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: wish: facility to wash org link descriptions
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 13:16:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tbavfik.fsf@len.workgroup> (raw)

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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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-02 12:16 Gregor Zattler [this message]
2018-03-02 12:43 ` wish: facility to wash org link descriptions Jack Henahan

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