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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Nicolas Goaziou
<mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> This is where I don't follow you. You can insert links without
> description, using `org-insert-link'. What makes you think you cannot?

I thought that I had tested `(org-insert-link nil nil "")' and found
that a description (repeating the headline text) was still inserted,
but I just tried again and it does in fact insert a link with no
description. (In the meantime I switched from ELPA to git, so perhaps
this behavior has changed?). This solves my problem, so sorry if this
was all noise.

> That's intended, indeed. If you added a description to a link, Org
> should use it.

At least in the case of org-id, I can imagine that the description
might only be used to control appearance in the org buffer, not to
express desired export behavior.
A link that uses org-id really begs for a description for readability,
but then you can't get \ref{label} on export. Perhaps this is a corner
case that doesn't justify another customization.

Regards,
Jake


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