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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fetching the description from a link string
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:58:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2egfo3c69.fsf@charm-ecran.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9kmb7lm.fsf@gmx.us> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:45:41 +0100")

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On 2015-11-16 10:45, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I cannot seem to find in org.el a function that will return the
>> description part of a link. I'm probably missing it … Could someone tell
>> me if such a function exists?
>
> org-element-context on a link will give you what you want.  It lives in
> org-element, though.
>
> Something like this when point is on a link,
>
>     (let ((e (org-element-context)))
>       (buffer-substring-no-properties
>        (org-element-property :contents-begin e)
>        (org-element-property :contents-end e)))

Thank you for the suggestion. I'm already doing something similar:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(let ((link (org-store-link nil))
      (name (org-element-property :raw-value (org-element-at-point))))
...)
#+end_src

For some reason I was under the impression that org-element might be
overkill for this, but it works well.

Thanks again,

Alan

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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-17 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-15 14:39 fetching the description from a link string Alan Schmitt
2015-11-16  9:45 ` Rasmus
2015-11-17 14:58   ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
2015-11-28  5:21     ` Sacha Chua

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