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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: patch for custom colored links in org-mode
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:46:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twgdxtfm.fsf@saiph.selenimh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d1n43we8.fsf@Johns-MacBook-Air.local> (John Kitchin's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2016 09:35:59 -0400")

Hello,

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I tried this aproach to enable custom colored links in org-mode if an
> org-link-type face is defined. If no face is applied, then it just gets
> the default org-link face
>
> For example this will make all doi links red.
>
> (defface org-link-doi
>   `((t (:inherit org-link
>                  :foreground "red")))
>   "Color for doi links.")
>
> It seems to work pretty well for me. What do you think about making this
> a feature in org-mode?

This sounds like a good idea. Thank you for submitting it.

However, I'm not convinced by the UI, i.e., creating a face specifically
named to trigger the feature. As a user, it doesn't seem very natural to
me.

At first I thought it was better to extend `org-add-link-type' with
a FACE definition, but we wouldn't have caught default link types.

So, maybe it is more reasonable to create a new variable, e.g.,
`org-link-display-parameters', which would hold an alist between link
types and property lists (or something else), e.g.,

  ("doi" :face my-special-face :display full)
  ("special" :display path)

Note that :display is a way to include your other idea about link
visibility. Default value for :face and :display would be, respectively,
`org-link' and `description'.

Of course, we can also create two variables, one for the face, the other
for the visibility.

WDYT?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-28 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-26 13:35 patch for custom colored links in org-mode John Kitchin
2016-06-27 12:52 ` Christian Wittern
2016-06-28 14:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2016-06-28 18:34   ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-06-28 19:23   ` Rasmus
2016-06-28 20:11     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-06-28 20:27       ` Rasmus
2016-06-28 20:44         ` John Kitchin
2016-07-01 23:23         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-07-06 11:25           ` Rasmus
2016-06-28 20:42       ` John Kitchin
2016-07-01 12:51         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-07-01 17:20           ` John Kitchin
2016-07-01 23:20             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-07-02 15:46               ` John Kitchin
2016-07-02 22:17                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-07-03 20:57               ` John Kitchin
2016-06-29  0:44   ` John Kitchin
2016-06-30 11:58     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-06-30 17:44       ` John Kitchin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-02  0:51 John Kitchin

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