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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Subject: Re: How to get the link the point is on?
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:49:00 -0400
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Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
[...]
> What I'd like to have is a function that would just extract the link
> portion (which is normally invisible) and displayed it in the echo
> area (something like hovering over a link in a web browser).

There may be a better way, but I think below does what you want.

#+begin_src elisp
  (defun org-display-link ()
    (interactive)
    (message "%s" (org-element-property :raw-link (org-element-context))))
#+end_src

--
Kyle