(Apologies for the double post of this email; due to a misconfiguration of
my mailer, I believed my first email hadn't gone through until I remembered
to check the archives.)

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 12:38 PM Ryan Thompson <rct@thompsonclan.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a use case where I'd like for Org Mode to remove broken links
> while preserving their text when exporting. In particular, I'm exporting
> the same file multiple times with different sets of headlines excluded each
> time, and as a result I have to be careful of linking to headlines that
> might not be present in every export. It would be much easier if such links
> could simply be converted back to plain text for that export, while
> remaining as a link for any exports that *do* include the target headline.
> None of the existing settings do quite what I want. The "mark" option comes
> closest. I basically want "mark" but without adding any additional text
> around the link's text. Would the developers be willing to merge such a
> feature if I wrote it? I would implement it by adding another possible
> value to "org-export-with-broken-links", perhaps calling it something like
> "unlink" or "strip" (suggestions for a better name welcome). Alternatively,
> I could implement an option to dispatch broken link handling to an
> arbitrary function.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan Thompson
>
>