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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: copying text from links makes it with a starting [[
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:32:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7/Foxao7Al88oVR@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKoxK+4wU93aL07q55eZtn5p6qwnPSUgfhjBB3MNhs5Y3QyXjg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 08:42:54AM +0100, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 2:26 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
> >
> > Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com> writes:
> > Could you please provide more details about what is happening?
> > What exactly do you do to copy the link?
> > See https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback
> >
> 
> Imagine I've this org fragment:
> 
> Link: [[https://foo.com]]
> 
> where the link is displayed without brackets, in org mode.
> I place the point at the beginning of the first visibile character,
> hence the 'h', and the C-space M-e M-w and then go to another
> application and paste the content of the clipboard.
> I've seen that sometimes the link is copied as text, so both beginning
> and ending brackets are there, but with long links the ending brackets
> are not there, but it could be they I remove them accidentally.
> I would like to copy only the visible part, but I guess there's no
> solution unless I do something manually or configure a web package to
> open the link into another application.

Perhaps what's needed is to teach M-e (org-forward-sentence) to handle
this.

The challenge still is that you don't quite know whether the link
"consumer" wants to have the wrapping [[...]] or not, since the
consumer isn't known at "copy" time.

Cheers
-- 
t

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-12  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-27 13:06 copying text from links makes it with a starting [[ Luca Ferrari
2022-12-27 13:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-12  7:42   ` Luca Ferrari
2023-01-12  8:32     ` tomas [this message]
2023-01-12  9:15     ` Ruijie Yu via General discussions about Org-mode.
2023-01-13  8:40     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14  0:06       ` Samuel Wales
2022-12-27 14:34 ` Esteban Ordóñez
2022-12-27 14:42   ` Esteban Ordóñez
2022-12-27 15:20 ` Max Nikulin

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