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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Subject: Re: fetching the description from a link string
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:45:41 +0100
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Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I cannot seem to find in org.el a function that will return the
> description part of a link. I'm probably missing it … Could someone tell
> me if such a function exists?

org-element-context on a link will give you what you want.  It lives in
org-element, though.

Something like this when point is on a link,

    (let ((e (org-element-context)))
      (buffer-substring-no-properties
       (org-element-property :contents-begin e)
       (org-element-property :contents-end e)))

Hope it helps,
Rasmus

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