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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] org-create-file-search-functions and description [9.5.5 (release_9.5.5 @ /usr/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/org/)]
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:12:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k05qjpwg.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rm7s61r.fsf@therning.org>

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?

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at https://orgmode.org/.
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-26 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-25 17:40 [BUG] org-create-file-search-functions and description [9.5.5 (release_9.5.5 @ /usr/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/org/)] Magnus Therning
2022-09-26 12:12 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-09-26 12:15   ` Magnus Therning
2022-09-26 15:13   ` Max Nikulin
2022-09-27  1:35     ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-05-09 10:43       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-27  1:40     ` [BUG] org-store-link-functions advertizes that the first non-nil return value is used, but it is not how org-store-link handles it (was: [BUG] org-create-file-search-functions and description [9.5.5 (release_9.5.5 @ /usr/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/org/)]) Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-27 11:39       ` [BUG] org-store-link-functions advertizes that the first non-nil return value is used, but it is not how org-store-link handles it Max Nikulin
2022-09-28  1:03         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-05-09 10:44       ` [BUG] org-store-link-functions advertizes that the first non-nil return value is used, but it is not how org-store-link handles it (was: [BUG] org-create-file-search-functions and description [9.5.5 (release_9.5.5 @ /usr/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/org/)]) Ihor Radchenko

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