From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Pan Xie <xiepan@skyguard.com.cn>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [FR] Should we resolve environment variables in the file link path when exporting? (was: [FR] Please add environment variable substitution in `org-display-inline-images')
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:52:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cz2fbm3f.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73ace84b-5258-0679-1b9c-deef021d7b79@skyguard.com.cn>
Pan Xie <xiepan@skyguard.com.cn> writes:
> Oh, that path will be horrible! Variable substitution is really
> important since it is an abstraction to make the same org file works on
> different hosts with different path hierarchies. I believe there are
> lots of users already rely on it, even without being documented. The
> reasonable thinking would be supporting more substitutions, rather than
> remove any.
Do not worry. https://bzg.fr/en/the-software-maintainers-pledge/:
I won't break your user experience.
I won't remove features.
...
I just wanted to point out that a discussion may be needed wrt export.
Maybe some other export backends also support env variables in file
paths? We should be a bit more careful if we want to support the
substitution everywhere, not just when opening file links from Emacs.
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-01 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-28 13:53 [FR] Please add environment variable substitution in `org-display-inline-images' Pan Xie
2023-05-28 14:21 ` Ruijie Yu via General discussions about Org-mode.
2023-05-31 8:24 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-31 14:05 ` Pan Xie
2023-06-01 0:12 ` Samuel Wales
2023-06-01 0:24 ` Pan Xie
2023-06-01 8:20 ` [FR] Should we resolve environment variables in the file link path when exporting? (was: [FR] Please add environment variable substitution in `org-display-inline-images') Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-01 8:24 ` Pan Xie
2023-06-01 8:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-01 8:38 ` Pan Xie
2023-06-01 8:52 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-07-31 8:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
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