Re: [RFC][PATCH v2] Allow to export to ascii custom link types as notes

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> `cons' is made an implementation detail, however completely opaque 
> structure is an obstacle for derived export backend. Perhaps getter 
> functions should be introduced as well.

I am looking at this again and the approach with special return values
really feels like a kludge.

What about passing an extra argument to :export function in
`org-export-custom-protocol-maybe':

(funcall protocol path desc backend info *link-object*)

Then, if the :export function returns non-string, the return value is
further processed as (org-export-data *return-value* info).

This way, we can transparently return an https link in ol-man's
`org-man-export' that will be handled automatically taking into account
the ASCII inline note settings.

All the existing export backends will continue working without
modification.

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