[bug] Display issue with broken links

[bug] Display issue with broken links

[Karl Voit]

Hi!

I've found an issue that leads to broken Org mode syntax without
noticing. Considering the following example:

: foo [[https://Karl-Voit.at][bar]] baz

When I put my cursor right after "foo" and press the DEL key, my Org
mode shows this:

: foo bar baz

... as if the link was removed properly, keeping only the
description text.

However, in reality, the remaining thing is different:

: foo [https://Karl-Voit.at][bar]] baz

This snippet is displayed properly at least after reloading the file
or switching to text-mode and back to org-mode.

I've made a screencast to demo this:
https://karl-voit.at/temp/2020-06-05T11.28.16_Org_mode_display_issue_with_broken_link_--_emacs_screencasts.gif

This happens with Emacs 26.1 as well as 26.3 with Org mode from
maint git (9.3.6).


Fun fact: I initially thought, this is a hidden feature which I
started to use happily ;-)
Considering
https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/gwa2i4/i_want_to_remove_the_link_and_preserve_the_text/
I would love to see something like
org-remove-link-and-keep-description-text built-in.

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Re: [bug] Display issue with broken links

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> I've found an issue that leads to broken Org mode syntax without
> noticing. Considering the following example:
>
> : foo [[https://Karl-Voit.at][bar]] baz
>
> When I put my cursor right after "foo" and press the DEL key, my Org
> mode shows this:
>
> : foo bar baz
>
> ... as if the link was removed properly, keeping only the
> description text.
>
> However, in reality, the remaining thing is different:
>
> : foo [https://Karl-Voit.at][bar]] baz
>
> This snippet is displayed properly at least after reloading the file
> or switching to text-mode and back to org-mode.

FWIW I cannot reproduce it.

> I've made a screencast to demo this:
> https://karl-voit.at/temp/2020-06-05T11.28.16_Org_mode_display_issue_with_broken_link_--_emacs_screencasts.gif

Proofs including an animated Nyan Cat are not considered valid, sorry.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: [bug] Display issue with broken links

[Karl Voit]

* Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Nicolas,

> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> I've found an issue that leads to broken Org mode syntax without
>> noticing. Considering the following example:
>>
>> : foo [[https://Karl-Voit.at][bar]] baz
>>
>> When I put my cursor right after "foo" and press the DEL key, my Org
>> mode shows this:
>>
>> : foo bar baz
>>
>> ... as if the link was removed properly, keeping only the
>> description text.
>>
>> However, in reality, the remaining thing is different:
>>
>> : foo [https://Karl-Voit.at][bar]] baz
>>
>> This snippet is displayed properly at least after reloading the file
>> or switching to text-mode and back to org-mode.
>
> FWIW I cannot reproduce it.

Oh. Good to know.

>> I've made a screencast to demo this:
>> https://karl-voit.at/temp/2020-06-05T11.28.16_Org_mode_display_issue_with_broken_link_--_emacs_screencasts.gif
>
> Proofs including an animated Nyan Cat are not considered valid, sorry.

Don't discriminate my horizontal scroll bar cat! :-)

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