From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem in removing the invisible brackets of a link
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:39:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2kpyane.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23349.64936.867540.822322@frac.u-strasbg.fr> (Alain Cochard's message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2018 11:36:40 +0200")
Hello,
Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr writes:
> The manual says:
>
> If you place the cursor at the beginning or just behind the end
> of the displayed text and press <BACKSPACE>, you will remove the
> (invisible) bracket at that location.
>
> The problem for me it that it depends on the way I arrive at those
> locations. For example, for '[[xx]]', seen as 'xx' underlined, if I
> have the cursor on the right of it and have it go towards the left
> just after the second 'x' and press <BACKSPACE>, then the behavior is
> as I expect (I see '[[xx]'), but, if I have the cursor on the left and
> have it go to towards the right just after the second 'x' and press
> <BACKSPACE>, then I see a single underlined 'x' (after a second
> <BACKSPACE> I see '[[]]').
>
> Is this normal? (tested with emacs -Q with master, with emacs 24.5.1
> and 26.1)
Yes, it is normal Emacs behaviour. See (info "(elisp) Invisible Text").
I guess we could clarify the manual. Suggestions welcome.
> Incidentally, is there a way to have things like [[xx]] behave as
> plain text?
Yes, there is. Insert a zero width space after the opening brackets.
> (I am not talking about literal links which are still
> understood as links.) I have tried 'quote', 'verse', 'verbatim',
> 'comment', 'example', and org code block: none work.
=[[xx]]= and ~[[xx]]= are not links; try to export them.
However, `org-open-at-point' still treats them as such -- see last
paragraph in its docstring -- because this was a desirable feature for
some users, IIRC.
> PS: for me this is not a theoretical issue: In many circumstances I
> would like '[[xx]]' instances not behave as links. I would be happy
> if I could change the link format (e.g., use {{xx}} instead -- is it
> possible? (I fear it is not.)
No, you cannot change link syntax, but you don't need to, either.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-29 9:36 Problem in removing the invisible brackets of a link Alain.Cochard
2018-06-29 13:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2018-07-03 13:12 ` Alain.Cochard
2018-10-14 8:07 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-10-14 12:11 ` Kaushal Modi
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