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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Word under cursor to internal link
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:08:14 -0500
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Something like this seems to do approximately what you want:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun word-to-link ()
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (let (start end word)
      (backward-word)      
      (setq start (point))
      (forward-word)
      (setq end (point))
      (setq word (buffer-substring start end))
      (setf (buffer-substring start end)
	    (format "[[%s]]" word)))))
#+END_SRC

Chaitanya Krishna <icymist@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello there,
>
> Is there a shortcut to change word under cursor to an internal link?
> Basically it is a pain trying to surround with two braces all the
> time!
>
> C-c C-l does not prompt me to create an internal link.
>
> Best regards,
> Chai
>

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