Hi,

I came across a situation where I had an org link inside a figure caption.

But the way the org-set-font-lock-defaults is written, the org-link face
gets overridden by org-meta-line face because the meta line fontification
is done AFTER link fontification.

Is there a specific reason why the meta line fontification has to be done
at the very last?

I have edited this function (just moved the meta line fontification above
link fontification) and now I can see a link fontification within the
caption.

I would like to understand if there is a reason why one should not move
this order.

Thanks!

(defun org-set-font-lock-defaults ()
  "Set font lock defaults for the current buffer."
  (let* ((em org-fontify-emphasized-text)
 (lk org-activate-links)
 (org-font-lock-extra-keywords
  (list
   ;; Call the hook
   '(org-font-lock-hook)
   ;; Headlines
   `(,(if org-fontify-whole-heading-line
  "^\\(\\**\\)\\(\\* \\)\\(.*\n?\\)"
"^\\(\\**\\)\\(\\* \\)\\(.*\\)")
     (1 (org-get-level-face 1))
     (2 (org-get-level-face 2))
     (3 (org-get-level-face 3)))
   ;; Table lines
   '("^[ \t]*\\(\\(|\\|\\+-[-+]\\).*\\S-\\)"
     (1 'org-table t))
   ;; Table internals
   '("^[ \t]*|\\(?:.*?|\\)? *\\(:?=[^|\n]*\\)" (1 'org-formula t))
   '("^[ \t]*| *\\([#*]\\) *|" (1 'org-formula t))
   '("^[ \t]*|\\( *\\([$!_^/]\\) *|.*\\)|" (1 'org-formula t))
   '("| *\\(<[lrc]?[0-9]*>\\)" (1 'org-formula t))
   ;; Drawers
   (list org-drawer-regexp '(0 'org-special-keyword t))
   (list "^[ \t]*:END:" '(0 'org-special-keyword t))
   ;; Properties
   (list org-property-re
 '(1 'org-special-keyword t)
 '(3 'org-property-value t))
           ;; Begin edit by KM
   ;; Blocks and meta lines
           ;; Move meta line fontification BEFORE the link fontification so
that
           ;; if meta lines like figure or table captions have links then
the
           ;; link fontification can override the meta line fontification
   '(org-fontify-meta-lines-and-blocks)
           ;; End edit by KM
   ;; Links
   (if (memq 'tag lk) '(org-activate-tags (1 'org-tag prepend)))
   (if (memq 'angle lk) '(org-activate-angle-links (0 'org-link t)))
   (if (memq 'plain lk) '(org-activate-plain-links (0 'org-link t)))
   (if (memq 'bracket lk) '(org-activate-bracket-links (0 'org-link t)))
   (if (memq 'radio lk) '(org-activate-target-links (0 'org-link t)))
   (if (memq 'date lk) '(org-activate-dates (0 'org-date t)))
   (if (memq 'footnote lk) '(org-activate-footnote-links))
           ;; Targets.
           (list org-any-target-regexp '(0 'org-target t))
   ;; Diary sexps.
   '("^&?%%(.*\\|<%%([^>\n]*?>" (0 'org-sexp-date t))
   ;; Macro
   '("{{{.+}}}" (0 'org-macro t))
   '(org-hide-wide-columns (0 nil append))
   ;; TODO keyword
   (list (format org-heading-keyword-regexp-format
 org-todo-regexp)
 '(2 (org-get-todo-face 2) t))
   ;; DONE
   (if org-fontify-done-headline
               (list (format org-heading-keyword-regexp-format
                             (concat
                              "\\(?:"
                              (mapconcat 'regexp-quote org-done-keywords
"\\|")
                              "\\)"))
                     '(2 'org-headline-done t))
     nil)
   ;; Priorities
   '(org-font-lock-add-priority-faces)
   ;; Tags
   '(org-font-lock-add-tag-faces)
   ;; Tags groups
   (if (and org-group-tags org-tag-groups-alist)
               (list (concat org-outline-regexp-bol ".+\\(:"
                             (regexp-opt (mapcar 'car org-tag-groups-alist))
                             ":\\).*$")
                     '(1 'org-tag-group prepend)))
   ;; Special keywords
   (list (concat "\\<" org-deadline-string) '(0 'org-special-keyword t))
   (list (concat "\\<" org-scheduled-string) '(0 'org-special-keyword t))
   (list (concat "\\<" org-closed-string) '(0 'org-special-keyword t))
   (list (concat "\\<" org-clock-string) '(0 'org-special-keyword t))
   ;; Emphasis
   (if em
               (if (featurep 'xemacs)
                   '(org-do-emphasis-faces (0 nil append))
                 '(org-do-emphasis-faces)))
   ;; Checkboxes
   '("^[ \t]*\\(?:[-+*]\\|[0-9]+[.)]\\)[
\t]+\\(?:\\[@\\(?:start:\\)?[0-9]+\\][ \t]*\\)?\\(\\[[- X]\\]\\)"
     1 'org-checkbox prepend)
   (if (cdr (assq 'checkbox org-list-automatic-rules))
               '("\\[\\([0-9]*%\\)\\]\\|\\[\\([0-9]*\\)/\\([0-9]*\\)\\]"
                 (0 (org-get-checkbox-statistics-face) t)))
   ;; Description list items
   '("^[ \t]*[-+*][ \t]+\\(.*?[ \t]+::\\)\\([ \t]+\\|$\\)"
     1 'org-list-dt prepend)
   ;; ARCHIVEd headings
   (list (concat
  org-outline-regexp-bol
  "\\(.*:" org-archive-tag ":.*\\)")
 '(1 'org-archived prepend))
   ;; Specials
   '(org-do-latex-and-related)
   '(org-fontify-entities)
   '(org-raise-scripts)
   ;; Code
   '(org-activate-code (1 'org-code t))
   ;; COMMENT
   (list (format org-heading-keyword-regexp-format
 (concat "\\("
 org-comment-string "\\|" org-quote-string
 "\\)"))
 '(2 'org-special-keyword t))
           ;; '(org-fontify-meta-lines-and-blocks) ; Edited by KM
           )))
    (setq org-font-lock-extra-keywords (delq nil
org-font-lock-extra-keywords))
    (run-hooks 'org-font-lock-set-keywords-hook)
    ;; Now set the full font-lock-keywords
    (org-set-local 'org-font-lock-keywords org-font-lock-extra-keywords)
    (org-set-local 'font-lock-defaults
                   '(org-font-lock-keywords t nil nil backward-paragraph))
    (kill-local-variable 'font-lock-keywords) nil))