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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: is ascii link format canonical? can it be made more linkifiable?
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:18:40 +0100
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To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
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Hello,

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> recent maint.
>
> org-ascii-links-to-notes is t.
>
> i am exporting bare links that look in the source like
>
>   http://whatever.com
>
> 1] seemingly, notes are not created.

This is expected. You wouldn't want to create an empty note, would you?

> actually i don't mind this, because i don't want notes in this case.
>
> 2] the links get exported like
>
>   [http://whatever.com]
>
> i get the same result if i export source that looks like
>
>   <http://whatever.com>
>
> or
>
>   [[http://whatever.com]]
>
> i do not know the standard, but i think that some email clients will
> not linkify this because of the brackets.  are we sure that [] are
> canonical?  not <>?  is it the clients that are wrong?
>
> can this be customized so that the link can be exported totally bare
> without any bracket-like characters for maximum client linkification?

I changed it in master. Now, external links are wrapped within angle
brackets. Please let me know if it fixes the issue.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou