From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: "Sébastien Gendre" <seb@k-7.ch>
Cc: Org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org-mode element API: How to extract link description
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:17:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87frr2x95y.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o75qyqwm.fsf@k-7.ch>
Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:
> With the Org-mode element API, when I get an element of type "link", how
> do I extract the link description ?
> It's not a property of a link, from what I can see in when explore the
> content of a link element. And I found nothing on the documentation.
Link description is considered to be link contents.
But do note that simple `org-element-at-point' does not compute
contents. It is only available in the full parse tree. From
`org-element-at-point', a practical way to retrieve description text is
using substring between :contents-begin/end.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-18 12:08 Org-mode element API: How to extract link description Sébastien Gendre
2024-08-18 13:17 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-08-18 13:47 ` Sébastien Gendre
2024-08-22 19:51 ` Alexander Adolf via General discussions about Org-mode.
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