From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to set org-make-link-description-function
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:05:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ51ETr7p9XF1BX0xSQLoZhnzVJPTM-evafJKqubVixT1vUG1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmeo53ji.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
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I don't know how to do that either. It does seem like you can set it
globally. You can try something like:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq org-make-link-description-function
(lambda (link desc)
(cond
((s-starts-with? "ebdb:uuid/" link)
(replace-regexp-in-string "ebdb:uuid/" "" link))
(t
desc))))
#+END_SRC
It doesn't seem too ideal, as it seems like something that should get set
in the link parameters.
Does anyone else have an idea?
John
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 5:54 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
wrote:
> I've coded Org link support for EBDB, a contact management package,
> where the :complete key looks like:
>
> (lambda ()
> (format "ebdb:uuid/%s"
> (ebdb-record-uuid
> (ebdb-prompt-for-record
> (ebdb-records)))))
>
> Which prompts for a record based on the contact name, then inserts the
> contact's UUID as the link.
>
> The problem is that Org then prompts for a link description. I'd like to
> provide the contact name as a default description (the user has just
> typed it in, after all), but haven't figured out how to do that.
>
> Clearly `org-make-link-description-function' is meant to play this role,
> and it would work perfectly, but I don't know to set it. I can't set it
> globally, but also don't know how to let-bind it locally.
>
> How am I supposed to use it?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-13 0:54 How to set org-make-link-description-function Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-13 2:05 ` John Kitchin [this message]
2018-04-13 4:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-13 4:39 ` John Kitchin
2018-04-13 17:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-13 20:32 ` John Kitchin
2018-04-13 23:58 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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