Re: Bug: org-toggle-link-display and org-hide-emphasis-markers [9.4 (9.4-44-g5272d9-elpaplus @ /home/gustavo/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20201123/)]

[Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com>]

Hi Bastien,

On Sat, 01 May 2021 at 13:42, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Gustavo,
>
> Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> when using `org-hide-emphasis-markers', making links visible with 
>> `org-toggle-link-display' also unhides the emphasis markers.  I 
>> believe 
>> this to be unexpected behavior (it certainly is to me), but I might 
>> be 
>> wrong here, given that the emphasis markers are explicitly set to a 
>> `org-link' invisible property (which see).
>
> thanks for reporting this, I've committed 842ab092a in maint which
> should fix it.
>

Thank you for looking into this, and for the fix.

> I hope the change does not break anyone's code: perhaps some people
> use custom code to hide/show emphasis markers based on the org-link
> invisible property specs.  
>
> In any case, I don't think `org-toggle-link-display' should display
> emphasis markers.

I'm not sure either.  Perhaps that was the reason why `org-link' was 
used as the invisibility property there in the first place.  If you 
think that is a concern, perhaps adding something as `org-emph' to the 
invisibility specs and using it there instead of leaving the markers in 
the default group might be a good idea.  This way it would be possible 
to toggle the markers selectively, as it is done with the links.  I'm 
not sure this is granted, but one reasonable hypothesis why `org-link' 
was used there in the first place is that some degree of selective 
toggling of the markers was somehow demanded.

Best,
Gustavo.