Re: How to display overlay or propertize text on file: link type about the file?

[stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com>]

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John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I think you are looking for the :activate-func property of a link. What
> you want is somewhat tricky though, how would you edit the link?
>
> There is an example at
> https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/11/04/New-link-features-in-org-9/#org069cbfa

Thanks for your tips. Helpful!!

>
> that might give you some ideas. You can use a 'display text property to
> change the appearance, but you need some way to remove this if you want
> to edit or see the original version.

I usually edit link with =[C-c C-l]= to edit link URL and description, not literally.

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> stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com> writes:
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>> I have a requirement, I want to display file: link's file type info on the link.
>>
>> For example, an Org file: link
>>
>> #+begin_src org
>> [[file:~/Org/logo.png][logo]]
>> [[file:~/Org/document.pdf][document]]
>> [[file:~/Org/book.epub][book]]
>> #+end_src
>>
>> I want to display link as:
>>
>> #+begin_src org
>> logo (image: png)
>> document (document: pdf)
>> book (ebook: epub)
>> #+end_src
>>
>> I'm inspired by this code snippet:
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> (org-link-set-parameters
>>  "file+sys"
>>  :complete 'org-file-complete-link
>>  :face (lambda (path) (if (file-exists-p path) 'org-link 'org-warning)))
>> #+end_src
>>
>> Is it possible to display those info between parentheses with an overlay or
>> propertied text?
>>
>> If someone have any idea or how to implement this, please help me. Thanks in advanced.
>>
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