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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: =?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Turning a link into a non-link
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:28:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7810.1328426926@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (=?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Pinard) of "Sat\, 04 Feb 2012 22\:48\:18 EST." <87fweqszy5.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca>

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Hi, Org mode people.
> 
> I sometimes want to turn [[POINTER][COMMENT]] into COMMENT.  That is, I
> want to remove the clickability, but retain the text.
> 
> To do so, I try `C-c C-l', empty the pointer, type RET, leave the
> comment as it is, and type RET.  Org mode reacts by writing "Empty link"
> in the minibuffer, and removing the COMMENT from the text.
> 

This is done by org-make-link-string: it considers an empty link to
be an error. If you toggle-debug-on-error, you will get a backtrace.

> Could it keep COMMENT in the text, instead of deleting it?
> 

IMO, that'd be bad programming practice: you should write a separate
function that unlinks the link.

Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-05  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-05  3:48 Turning a link into a non-link François Pinard
2012-02-05  7:28 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-02-05 13:01   ` François Pinard
2012-02-05 13:24     ` François Pinard

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