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
>
>
>